How many working days in year 1972?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1972 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 53 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1972.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. Epiphany : Thursday, 6 January, 1972
2. Good Friday : Friday, 31 March, 1972
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 3 April, 1972
4. May Day : Monday, 1 May, 1972
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 11 May, 1972
6. Independence Day : Wednesday, 6 December, 1972
7. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 1972
8. St Stephen's Day : Tuesday, 26 December, 1972
And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 1972
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 2 April, 1972
3. Whit Sunday : Sunday, 21 May, 1972
4. Midsummer Day : Saturday, 24 June, 1972
5. All Saints' Day : Saturday, 4 November, 1972