How many working days in year 2005?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2005 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 7 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 2005.
Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:
1. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 24 March, 2005
2. Good Friday : Friday, 25 March, 2005
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 28 March, 2005
4. General Prayer Day : Friday, 22 April, 2005
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 5 May, 2005
6. Whit Monday : Monday, 16 May, 2005
7. Boxing Day : Monday, 26 December, 2005
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 2005
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 27 March, 2005
3. Pentecost : Sunday, 15 May, 2005
4. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 2005