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How many working days in year 2000?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2000 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 2000.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. Good Friday : Friday, 21 April, 2000
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 24 April, 2000
3. Labour Day : Monday, 1 May, 2000
4. Liberation Day : Monday, 8 May, 2000
5. St Cyril and Methodius' Day : Wednesday, 5 July, 2000
6. Jan Hus Day : Thursday, 6 July, 2000
7. St Wenceslas Day : Thursday, 28 September, 2000
8. Freedom and Democracy Day : Friday, 17 November, 2000
9. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2000
10. St. Stephen's Day : Tuesday, 26 December, 2000

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

1. Restoration Day of the Independent Czech State : Saturday, 1 January, 2000
2. Independence Day : Saturday, 28 October, 2000
3. Christmas Eve : Sunday, 24 December, 2000