How many working days in year 1978?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1978 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1978.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. Lunes de Carnaval : Monday, 6 February, 1978
2. Martes de Carnaval : Tuesday, 7 February, 1978
3. Viernes Santo : Friday, 24 March, 1978
4. Día del Trabajo : Monday, 1 May, 1978
5. Batalla de Pichincha : Friday, 26 May, 1978
6. Primer Grito de la Independencia : Friday, 11 August, 1978
7. Independencia de Guayaquil : Monday, 9 October, 1978
8. Día de los Difuntos : Friday, 3 November, 1978
9. Navidad : Monday, 25 December, 1978
And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:
1. Año Nuevo : Sunday, 1 January, 1978