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How many working days in year 1997?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1997 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 15 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 246 working days in 1997.
Here is the list of these 15 public holidays:
1. Jour de l'An : wednesday, 1 january, 1997
2. Épiphanie : monday, 6 january, 1997
3. Saint-Joseph : wednesday, 19 march, 1997
4. Vendredi Saint : friday, 28 march, 1997
5. Lundi de Pâques : monday, 31 march, 1997
6. Jeudi de l'Ascension : thursday, 8 may, 1997
7. Lundi de la Pentecôte : monday, 19 may, 1997
8. Fête-Dieu : thursday, 29 may, 1997
9. Fête nationale suisse : friday, 1 august, 1997
10. Assomption : friday, 15 august, 1997
11. Immaculée Conception : monday, 8 december, 1997
12. Veille de Noël : wednesday, 24 december, 1997
13. Noël : thursday, 25 december, 1997
14. Saint Étienne : friday, 26 december, 1997
15. Saint-Sylvestre : wednesday, 31 december, 1997
And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:
1. Toussaint : saturday, 1 november, 1997