How many working days in year 1978?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1978 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 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 1978.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. Epiphany : Friday, 6 January, 1978
2. Good Friday : Friday, 24 March, 1978
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 27 March, 1978
4. May Day : Monday, 1 May, 1978
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 4 May, 1978
6. Independence Day : Wednesday, 6 December, 1978
7. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 1978
8. St Stephen's Day : Tuesday, 26 December, 1978
And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 1978
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 26 March, 1978
3. Whit Sunday : Sunday, 14 May, 1978
4. Midsummer Day : Saturday, 24 June, 1978
5. All Saints' Day : Saturday, 4 November, 1978