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How many working days in year 1999?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1999 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 7 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 1999.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Friday, 1 January, 1999
2. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 1 April, 1999
3. Good Friday : Friday, 2 April, 1999
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 5 April, 1999
5. General Prayer Day : Friday, 30 April, 1999
6. Ascension Day : Thursday, 13 May, 1999
7. Whit Monday : Monday, 24 May, 1999

And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 4 April, 1999
2. Pentecost : Sunday, 23 May, 1999
3. Christmas Day : Saturday, 25 December, 1999
4. Boxing Day : Sunday, 26 December, 1999