Thursday a consequence, some call Thursday "thirstday" or "thirsty Thursday". In the United Kingdom, all general elections since 1935 have been held on a Thursday, and this has become a tradition, although not a requirement of the law — which merely states that an election may be held on any day ""except Saturdays, Sundays, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Good Friday, bank holidays in any part of the United Kingdom and any day appointed for public thanksgiving and mourning."" Additionally, local elections are usually held on the first Thursday in May. The Electoral Administration Act 2006 removed Maundy Thursday as an excluded
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,