Can an escrow that requires the recording of documents close on a day when the recorder's office is not open?

It is true an escrow that requires the recording of documents cannot close on a day on which the recorder's office is not open. But in the absence of an express term in the agreement that time is of the essence or its necessary implication by reason of the nature of the contract, the court will provide the parties a reasonable time in which to perform. (Fowler v. Ross (1983) 142 Cal.App.3d 472, 479-480.) Here the contract did not expressly state that time is of the essence, and there is nothing in the nature of the contract that requires the implication that time is of the essence. Thus it was not necessary to close escrow on February 29, 2004.