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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 12 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 1996.
Here is the list of these 12 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1996
2. Berchtold's Day : Tuesday, 2 January, 1996
3. Good Friday : Friday, 5 April, 1996
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 8 April, 1996
5. Sechseläuten : Monday, 15 April, 1996
6. Labour Day : Wednesday, 1 May, 1996
7. Ascension Day : Thursday, 16 May, 1996
8. Whit Monday : Monday, 27 May, 1996
9. Swiss National Day : Thursday, 1 August, 1996
10. Knabenschiessen : Monday, 9 September, 1996
11. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 1996
12. Saint Stephen's Day : Thursday, 26 December, 1996