How many working days in year 1974?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1974 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 1974.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Tuesday, 1 January, 1974
2. Good Friday : Friday, 12 April, 1974
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 15 April, 1974
4. May Day : Wednesday, 1 May, 1974
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 23 May, 1974
6. Independence Day : Friday, 6 December, 1974
7. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 1974
8. St Stephen's Day : Thursday, 26 December, 1974
And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Epiphany : Sunday, 6 January, 1974
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 14 April, 1974
3. Whit Sunday : Sunday, 2 June, 1974
4. Midsummer Day : Saturday, 22 June, 1974
5. All Saints' Day : Saturday, 2 November, 1974