How many working days in year 1979?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1979 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1979.
Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1979
2. Australia Day : Friday, 26 January, 1979
3. Canberra Day : Monday, 12 March, 1979
4. Good Friday : Friday, 13 April, 1979
5. Easter Monday : Monday, 16 April, 1979
6. Anzac Day : Wednesday, 25 April, 1979
7. King's Birthday : Monday, 11 June, 1979
8. Labour Day : Monday, 1 October, 1979
9. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 1979
10. Boxing Day : Wednesday, 26 December, 1979
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Easter Saturday : Saturday, 14 April, 1979
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 15 April, 1979