How many working days in year 1972?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1972 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 53 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1972.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. Easter Monday : Monday, 3 April, 1972
2. Labor Day : Monday, 1 May, 1972
3. Iris Day : Monday, 8 May, 1972
4. Ascension Day : Thursday, 11 May, 1972
5. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 22 May, 1972
6. National Day : Friday, 21 July, 1972
7. Assumption of Mary : Tuesday, 15 August, 1972
8. All Saints' Day : Wednesday, 1 November, 1972
9. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 1972
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 1972
2. Armistice Day : Saturday, 11 November, 1972