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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 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 249 working days in 1994.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 3 January, 1994
2. National day : Thursday, 3 March, 1994
3. Orthodox Easter Friday : Friday, 29 April, 1994
4. Orthodox Easter Monday : Monday, 2 May, 1994
5. St. George's Day : Friday, 6 May, 1994
6. Culture and Literacy Day : Tuesday, 24 May, 1994
7. Unification Day : Tuesday, 6 September, 1994
8. Independence Day : Thursday, 22 September, 1994
9. Boxing day : Monday, 26 December, 1994
10. Christmas Day (observance) : Tuesday, 27 December, 1994
11. Christmas Day (observance) : Wednesday, 28 December, 1994

And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 1994
2. Orthodox Easter Saturday : Saturday, 30 April, 1994
3. Orthodox Easter Sunday : Sunday, 1 May, 1994
4. Christmas Eve : Saturday, 24 December, 1994
5. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 1994