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How many working days in year 1996?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1996 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

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

Now, let's remove 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1996.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. Restoration Day of the Independent Czech State : Monday, 1 January, 1996
2. Good Friday : Friday, 5 April, 1996
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 8 April, 1996
4. Labour Day : Wednesday, 1 May, 1996
5. Liberation Day : Wednesday, 8 May, 1996
6. St Cyril and Methodius' Day : Friday, 5 July, 1996
7. Independence Day : Monday, 28 October, 1996
8. Christmas Eve : Tuesday, 24 December, 1996
9. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 1996
10. St. Stephen's Day : Thursday, 26 December, 1996

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

1. Jan Hus Day : Saturday, 6 July, 1996
2. St Wenceslas Day : Saturday, 28 September, 1996
3. Freedom and Democracy Day : Sunday, 17 November, 1996