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How many working days in year 1978?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1978 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 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 1978.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. Easter Monday : Monday, 27 March, 1978
2. Labor Day : Monday, 1 May, 1978
3. Ascension Day : Thursday, 4 May, 1978
4. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 15 May, 1978
5. National Day : Friday, 21 July, 1978
6. Assumption of Mary : Tuesday, 15 August, 1978
7. French Community Holiday : Wednesday, 27 September, 1978
8. All Saints' Day : Wednesday, 1 November, 1978
9. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 1978
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 1978
2. Armistice Day : Saturday, 11 November, 1978