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How many working days in year 1985?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1985 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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1985.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. Nytårsdag : Tuesday, 1 January, 1985
2. Skærtorsdag : Thursday, 4 April, 1985
3. Langfredag : Friday, 5 April, 1985
4. 2. påskedag : Monday, 8 April, 1985
5. Store Bededag : Friday, 3 May, 1985
6. Kristi Himmelfartsdag : Thursday, 16 May, 1985
7. 2. pinsedag : Monday, 27 May, 1985
8. Juledag : Wednesday, 25 December, 1985
9. 2. juledag : Thursday, 26 December, 1985

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

1. Påskedag : Sunday, 7 April, 1985
2. Pinsedag : Sunday, 26 May, 1985