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How many working days in year 2000?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2000 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 2000.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Epiphany : Thursday, 6 January, 2000
2. Good Friday : Friday, 21 April, 2000
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 24 April, 2000
4. May Day : Monday, 1 May, 2000
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 1 June, 2000
6. Independence Day : Wednesday, 6 December, 2000
7. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2000
8. St Stephen's Day : Tuesday, 26 December, 2000

And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 2000
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 23 April, 2000
3. Whit Sunday : Sunday, 11 June, 2000
4. Midsummer Day : Saturday, 24 June, 2000
5. All Saints' Day : Saturday, 4 November, 2000