How many working days in year 1917?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1917 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 1917.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1917
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 9 April, 1917
3. Labor Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 1917
4. Ascension Day : Thursday, 17 May, 1917
5. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 28 May, 1917
6. Assumption of Mary : Wednesday, 15 August, 1917
7. French Community Holiday : Thursday, 27 September, 1917
8. All Saints' Day : Thursday, 1 November, 1917
9. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 1917
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. National Day : Saturday, 21 July, 1917
2. Armistice Day : Sunday, 11 November, 1917