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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. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1996
2. Second Day of the New Year : Tuesday, 2 January, 1996
3. Union of the Romanian Principalities : Wednesday, 24 January, 1996
4. Orthodox Easter Friday : Friday, 12 April, 1996
5. Orthodox Easter Monday : Monday, 15 April, 1996
6. Labour Day : Wednesday, 1 May, 1996
7. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 3 June, 1996
8. Assumption : Thursday, 15 August, 1996
9. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 1996
10. Boxing day : Thursday, 26 December, 1996

And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Orthodox Easter Sunday : Sunday, 14 April, 1996
2. Children's Day : Saturday, 1 June, 1996
3. Pentecost Sunday : Sunday, 2 June, 1996
4. St. Andrew's Day : Saturday, 30 November, 1996
5. National Day : Sunday, 1 December, 1996