See, e.g., Civ. Exception for Public Officers. When Time Stops Running Temporarily . When Offense Is Committed . An offense is committed either when every element occurs, or, if a legislative purpose to prohibit a continuing course of conduct plainly appears, at the time when the course of conduct or the defendant's complicity therein is terminated.
Time starts to run on the day after the offense is commit-ted.
A prosecution is commenced when either an indictment is presented in open court and there received and filed or a complaint is filed.