How many working days in year 2000?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2000 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 53 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2000.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 20 April, 2000
2. Good Friday : Friday, 21 April, 2000
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 24 April, 2000
4. General Prayer Day : Friday, 19 May, 2000
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 1 June, 2000
6. Whit Monday : Monday, 12 June, 2000
7. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2000
8. Boxing Day : Tuesday, 26 December, 2000
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 2000
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 23 April, 2000
3. Pentecost : Sunday, 11 June, 2000