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How many working days in year 1980?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1980 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 1980.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Tuesday, 1 January, 1980
2. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 3 April, 1980
3. Good Friday : Friday, 4 April, 1980
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 7 April, 1980
5. General Prayer Day : Friday, 2 May, 1980
6. Ascension Day : Thursday, 15 May, 1980
7. Whit Monday : Monday, 26 May, 1980
8. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 1980
9. Boxing Day : Friday, 26 December, 1980

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

1. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 6 April, 1980
2. Pentecost : Sunday, 25 May, 1980