How many working days in year 1998?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1998 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 1998.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 1998
2. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 9 April, 1998
3. Good Friday : Friday, 10 April, 1998
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 13 April, 1998
5. Labour Day : Friday, 1 May, 1998
6. Ascension Day : Thursday, 21 May, 1998
7. Whit Monday : Monday, 1 June, 1998
8. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 1998
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 12 April, 1998
2. Constitution Day : Sunday, 17 May, 1998
3. Pentecost : Sunday, 31 May, 1998
4. St Stephen's Day : Saturday, 26 December, 1998