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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 2008.
Here is the list of these 9 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. Labour Day : Thursday, 1 May, 2008
5. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 12 May, 2008
6. State Foundation Day : Wednesday, 20 August, 2008
7. National Day : Thursday, 23 October, 2008
8. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 2008
9. Second Day of Christmas : Friday, 26 December, 2008
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. National Day : Saturday, 15 March, 2008
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 23 March, 2008
3. Pentecost Sunday : Sunday, 11 May, 2008
4. All Saints' Day : Saturday, 1 November, 2008