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How many working days in year 2004?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2004 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 2004.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 2004
2. Epiphany : Tuesday, 6 January, 2004
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 12 April, 2004
4. Corpus Christi : Thursday, 10 June, 2004
5. Anti-Fascist Struggle Day : Tuesday, 22 June, 2004
6. Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day : Thursday, 5 August, 2004
7. All Saints' Day : Monday, 1 November, 2004
8. Remembrance Day : Thursday, 18 November, 2004

And here are the 6 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Easter : Sunday, 11 April, 2004
2. Labour Day : Saturday, 1 May, 2004
3. National Day : Sunday, 30 May, 2004
4. Assumption Day : Sunday, 15 August, 2004
5. Christmas Day : Saturday, 25 December, 2004
6. St. Stephen's Day : Sunday, 26 December, 2004