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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 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1996.
Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1996
2. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 4 April, 1996
3. Good Friday : Friday, 5 April, 1996
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 8 April, 1996
5. Labour Day : Wednesday, 1 May, 1996
6. Ascension Day : Thursday, 16 May, 1996
7. Constitution Day : Friday, 17 May, 1996
8. Whit Monday : Monday, 27 May, 1996
9. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 1996
10. St Stephen's Day : Thursday, 26 December, 1996
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 7 April, 1996
2. Pentecost : Sunday, 26 May, 1996