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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 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1994.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Paasmaandag : Monday, 4 April, 1994
2. Hemelvaartsdag : Thursday, 12 May, 1994
3. Pinkstermaandag : Monday, 23 May, 1994
4. Feest van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap : Monday, 11 July, 1994
5. Nationale Feestdag : Thursday, 21 July, 1994
6. Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hemelvaart : Monday, 15 August, 1994
7. Allerheiligen : Tuesday, 1 November, 1994
8. Wapenstilstand : Friday, 11 November, 1994

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Nieuwjaarsdag : Saturday, 1 January, 1994
2. Dag van de Arbeid : Sunday, 1 May, 1994
3. Kerstmis : Sunday, 25 December, 1994