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How many working days in year 1985?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1985 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 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 1985.
Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Tuesday, 1 January, 1985
2. Human Rights Day : Thursday, 21 March, 1985
3. Good Friday : Friday, 5 April, 1985
4. Family Day : Monday, 8 April, 1985
5. Workers' Day : Wednesday, 1 May, 1985
6. Youth Day observance : Monday, 17 June, 1985
7. National Women's Day : Friday, 9 August, 1985
8. Heritage Day : Tuesday, 24 September, 1985
9. Day of Reconciliation : Monday, 16 December, 1985
10. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 1985
11. Day of Goodwill : Thursday, 26 December, 1985
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Freedom Day : Saturday, 27 April, 1985
2. Youth Day : Sunday, 16 June, 1985