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How many working days in year 1917?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1917 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 7 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 1917.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1917
2. Good Friday : Friday, 6 April, 1917
3. Spring Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 1917
4. Independence Restoration Day : Monday, 20 August, 1917
5. Christmas Eve : Monday, 24 December, 1917
6. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 1917
7. Second Day of Christmas : Wednesday, 26 December, 1917

And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Independence Day : Saturday, 24 February, 1917
2. Easter : Sunday, 8 April, 1917
3. Pentecost : Sunday, 27 May, 1917
4. Victory Day : Saturday, 23 June, 1917
5. Midsummer Day : Sunday, 24 June, 1917