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How many working days in year 2008?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2008 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 2008.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. Pesach : Sunday, 20 April, 2008
2. Yom Ha-Atzmaut : Thursday, 8 May, 2008
3. Shavuot : Monday, 9 June, 2008
4. Rosh Hashanah : Tuesday, 30 September, 2008
5. Rosh Hashanah : Wednesday, 1 October, 2008
6. Yom Kippur : Thursday, 9 October, 2008
7. Sukkot : Tuesday, 14 October, 2008
8. Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah : Tuesday, 21 October, 2008
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Purim : Friday, 21 March, 2008
2. Shvi'i shel Pesach : Saturday, 26 April, 2008