How many working days in year 1996?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1996 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 1996.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1996
2. Good Friday : Friday, 5 April, 1996
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 8 April, 1996
4. May Day : Wednesday, 1 May, 1996
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 16 May, 1996
6. Independence Day : Friday, 6 December, 1996
7. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 1996
8. St Stephen's Day : Thursday, 26 December, 1996
And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Epiphany : Saturday, 6 January, 1996
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 7 April, 1996
3. Whit Sunday : Sunday, 26 May, 1996
4. Midsummer Day : Saturday, 22 June, 1996
5. All Saints' Day : Saturday, 2 November, 1996