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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 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 1996.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Nieuwjaar : Monday, 1 January, 1996
2. Goede Vrijdag : Friday, 5 April, 1996
3. Tweede Paasdag : Monday, 8 April, 1996
4. Koninginnedag : Tuesday, 30 April, 1996
5. Hemelvaartsdag : Thursday, 16 May, 1996
6. Tweede Pinksterdag : Monday, 27 May, 1996
7. Eerste Kerstdag : Wednesday, 25 December, 1996
8. Tweede Kerstdag : Thursday, 26 December, 1996

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Eerste Paasdag : Sunday, 7 April, 1996
2. Eerste Pinksterdag : Sunday, 26 May, 1996