How many working days in year 1979?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1979 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 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1979.
Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:
1. Año Nuevo : Monday, 1 January, 1979
2. Día de Juan Pablo Duarte : Friday, 26 January, 1979
3. Día de la Independencia Nacional : Tuesday, 27 February, 1979
4. Viernes Santo : Friday, 13 April, 1979
5. Día del Trabajo : Monday, 30 April, 1979
6. Corpus Christi : Thursday, 14 June, 1979
7. Día de la Restauración de la República : Thursday, 16 August, 1979
8. Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes : Monday, 24 September, 1979
9. Día de la Constitución : Monday, 5 November, 1979
10. Navidad : Tuesday, 25 December, 1979
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Día de los Santos Reyes : Saturday, 6 January, 1979
2. Día de Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia : Sunday, 21 January, 1979