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 12 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 249 working days in 1979.
Here is the list of these 12 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1979
2. National day (observance) : Monday, 5 March, 1979
3. Orthodox Easter Friday : Friday, 20 April, 1979
4. Orthodox Easter Monday : Monday, 23 April, 1979
5. Labour Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 1979
6. St. George's Day (observance) : Monday, 7 May, 1979
7. Culture and Literacy Day : Thursday, 24 May, 1979
8. Unification Day : Thursday, 6 September, 1979
9. Independence Day (observance) : Monday, 24 September, 1979
10. Christmas Eve : Monday, 24 December, 1979
11. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 1979
12. Boxing day : Wednesday, 26 December, 1979
And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. National day : Saturday, 3 March, 1979
2. Orthodox Easter Saturday : Saturday, 21 April, 1979
3. Orthodox Easter Sunday : Sunday, 22 April, 1979
4. St. George's Day : Sunday, 6 May, 1979
5. Independence Day : Saturday, 22 September, 1979