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How many working days in year 1994?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1994 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 6 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 1994.

Here is the list of these 6 public holidays:

1. National Day : Tuesday, 15 March, 1994
2. Good Friday : Friday, 1 April, 1994
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 4 April, 1994
4. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 23 May, 1994
5. All Saints' Day : Tuesday, 1 November, 1994
6. Second Day of Christmas : Monday, 26 December, 1994

And here are the 7 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 1994
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 3 April, 1994
3. Labour Day : Sunday, 1 May, 1994
4. Pentecost Sunday : Sunday, 22 May, 1994
5. State Foundation Day : Saturday, 20 August, 1994
6. National Day : Sunday, 23 October, 1994
7. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 1994