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How many working days in year 1977?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1977 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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1977.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. Human Rights Day : Monday, 21 March, 1977
2. Good Friday : Friday, 8 April, 1977
3. Family Day : Monday, 11 April, 1977
4. Freedom Day : Wednesday, 27 April, 1977
5. Workers' Day observance : Monday, 2 May, 1977
6. Youth Day : Thursday, 16 June, 1977
7. National Women's Day : Tuesday, 9 August, 1977
8. Day of Reconciliation : Friday, 16 December, 1977
9. Day of Goodwill : Monday, 26 December, 1977
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 1977
2. Workers' Day : Sunday, 1 May, 1977
3. Heritage Day : Saturday, 24 September, 1977
4. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 1977