How many working days in year 1979?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1979 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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1979.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1979
2. New Year's Holiday : Tuesday, 2 January, 1979
3. Orthodox Christmas Holiday : Monday, 8 January, 1979
4. National Day : Thursday, 15 February, 1979
5. National Day Holiday : Friday, 16 February, 1979
6. Great Friday : Friday, 20 April, 1979
7. Easter Monday : Monday, 23 April, 1979
8. May Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 1979
9. May Day Holiday : Wednesday, 2 May, 1979
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Orthodox Christmas Day : Sunday, 7 January, 1979
2. Orthodox Easter Saturday : Saturday, 21 April, 1979
3. Easter : Sunday, 22 April, 1979
4. Armistice Day : Sunday, 11 November, 1979