Royal Maundy pence to each of fifty poor men. It is not known, however, whether it was as yet the practice each year to have the number of pence and the number of recipients track the monarch's age: Henry IV was the first monarch to decree that the number of pence given be determined by the monarch's age. The ceremony was not always performed on Maundy Thursday; it could be postponed a day to Good Friday by royal command, as it was in 1510. Nobles could hold their own Maundy distributions, as did Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland in the early
360-day calendar used a 360 day calendar. Romans initially used a calendar which had 360 days, with varying length of months. The Rig Veda describes a calendar with twelve months and 360 days. In the Mayan Long Count Calendar, the equivalent of the year, the tun, was 360 days. A duration is calculated as an integral number of days between start date A and end date B. The difference in years, months and days are usually calculated separately: There are several methods commonly available which differ in the way that they handle the cases where the months are not 30 days long,