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How many working days in year 2004?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2004 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 2004.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 2004
2. Second Day of the New Year : Friday, 2 January, 2004
3. Orthodox Easter Friday : Friday, 9 April, 2004
4. Orthodox Easter Monday : Monday, 12 April, 2004
5. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 31 May, 2004
6. Children's Day : Tuesday, 1 June, 2004
7. St. Andrew's Day : Tuesday, 30 November, 2004
8. National Day : Wednesday, 1 December, 2004

And here are the 7 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Union of the Romanian Principalities : Saturday, 24 January, 2004
2. Orthodox Easter Sunday : Sunday, 11 April, 2004
3. Labour Day : Saturday, 1 May, 2004
4. Pentecost Sunday : Sunday, 30 May, 2004
5. Assumption : Sunday, 15 August, 2004
6. Christmas Day : Saturday, 25 December, 2004
7. Boxing day : Sunday, 26 December, 2004