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How many working days in year 1996?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1996 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1996.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1996
2. Day after New Year's Day : Tuesday, 2 January, 1996
3. Auckland Day : Monday, 29 January, 1996
4. Waitangi Day : Tuesday, 6 February, 1996
5. Good Friday : Friday, 5 April, 1996
6. Easter Monday : Monday, 8 April, 1996
7. Anzac Day : Thursday, 25 April, 1996
8. Queen's Birthday : Monday, 3 June, 1996
9. Labour Day : Monday, 28 October, 1996
10. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 1996
11. Boxing Day : Thursday, 26 December, 1996