How many working days in year 2008?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2008 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.
Now, let's remove 6 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 256 working days in 2008.
Here is the list of these 6 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Tuesday, 1 January, 2008
2. Good Friday : Friday, 21 March, 2008
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 24 March, 2008
4. May Day : Thursday, 1 May, 2008
5. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 2008
6. St Stephen's Day : Friday, 26 December, 2008
And here are the 6 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Epiphany : Sunday, 6 January, 2008
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 23 March, 2008
3. Whit Sunday : Sunday, 11 May, 2008
4. Midsummer Day : Saturday, 21 June, 2008
5. All Saints' Day : Saturday, 1 November, 2008
6. Independence Day : Saturday, 6 December, 2008