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How many working days in year 1999?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1999 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 3 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 258 working days in 1999.

Here is the list of these 3 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Friday, 1 January, 1999
2. Good Friday : Friday, 2 April, 1999
3. National Day : Monday, 9 August, 1999

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Labour Day : Saturday, 1 May, 1999
2. Christmas Day : Saturday, 25 December, 1999