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How many working days in year 2079?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2079 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 249 working days in 2079.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day Observance : Monday, 2 January, 2079
2. Australia Day : Thursday, 26 January, 2079
3. Canberra Day : Monday, 13 March, 2079
4. Good Friday : Friday, 21 April, 2079
5. Easter Monday : Monday, 24 April, 2079
6. Anzac Day : Tuesday, 25 April, 2079
7. Reconciliation Day : Monday, 29 May, 2079
8. King's Birthday : Monday, 12 June, 2079
9. Labour Day : Monday, 2 October, 2079
10. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2079
11. Boxing Day : Tuesday, 26 December, 2079

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

1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2079
2. Easter Saturday : Saturday, 22 April, 2079
3. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 23 April, 2079