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How many working days in year 1984?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1984 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 1984.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 2 January, 1984
2. Good Friday : Friday, 20 April, 1984
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 23 April, 1984
4. Labour Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 1984
5. Establishment Day : Monday, 2 July, 1984
6. National Day : Monday, 1 October, 1984
7. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 1984
8. Boxing Day : Wednesday, 26 December, 1984

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 1984
2. Holy Saturday : Saturday, 21 April, 1984
3. Establishment Day : Sunday, 1 July, 1984