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How many working days in year 1948?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1948 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 1948.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Nieuwjaarsdag : Thursday, 1 January, 1948
2. Paasmaandag : Monday, 29 March, 1948
3. Hemelvaartsdag : Thursday, 6 May, 1948
4. Pinkstermaandag : Monday, 17 May, 1948
5. Nationale Feestdag : Wednesday, 21 July, 1948
6. Feest van de Franse Gemeenschap : Monday, 27 September, 1948
7. Allerheiligen : Monday, 1 November, 1948
8. Wapenstilstand : Thursday, 11 November, 1948

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

1. Dag van de Arbeid : Saturday, 1 May, 1948
2. Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hemelvaart : Sunday, 15 August, 1948
3. Kerstmis : Saturday, 25 December, 1948