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 5 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 256 working days in 1979.
 Here is the list of these 5 public holidays: 
 
 1. New Year's Day : 1979年1月1日星期一 
2. Good Friday : 1979年4月13日星期五 
3. Labour Day : 1979年5月1日星期二 
4. National Day : 1979年8月9日星期四 
5. Christmas Day : 1979年12月25日星期二