How many working days in year 1979?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1979 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 1979.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1979
2. Good Friday : Friday, 13 April, 1979
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 16 April, 1979
4. May Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 1979
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 24 May, 1979
6. Independence Day : Thursday, 6 December, 1979
7. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 1979
8. St Stephen's Day : Wednesday, 26 December, 1979
And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Epiphany : Saturday, 6 January, 1979
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 15 April, 1979
3. Whit Sunday : Sunday, 3 June, 1979
4. Midsummer Day : Saturday, 23 June, 1979
5. All Saints' Day : Saturday, 3 November, 1979