The traditional Hebrew method of counting days is from sunset to sunset. As far as I know, this has been true throughout recorded history, while most other cultures count days beginning either at sunrise or at midnight. There are multiple scriptural bases for beginning the calendar day at sunset, but the most significant one is from Genesis 1: "It was evening and it was morning, the first day..." etc.
People who take the books of Enoch too seriously tend to get caught up in all kinds of calendar controversies. They say that the day is only from sunrise to sunset and the nighttime doesn't count as part of a calendar day at all, so the Sabbath is really only about 12 hours. They also say that the Sabbath must be counted each month beginning with the new moon, so that the Sabbath is always on the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th of the lunar month. (There are some variations on that.) I have read Enoch a couple of times, but haven't studied it--mostly because of the foul fruit I see in the lives of those who do--so I can't comment on exactly what Enoch says about days and months, etc.
These ideas create several contradictions in calculating feast days and Sabbaths, and puts their adherents at odds with the rest of the world. In the minds of most "Enochians", though, being at odds with all other believers is a feature, not a bug, of the Enochian calendar. True believers who accept the *whole* word of God know the *true* calendar. The rest of us are deceived....or so they want to believe.
I talk about the Sabbath idea a little more here: All About the Weekly Sabbath.
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