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How many working days in year 2012?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2012 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 12 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 249 working days in 2012.

Here is the list of these 12 public holidays:

1. Novoletni dan : Monday, 2 January, 2012
2. Prešernov dan : Wednesday, 8 February, 2012
3. Velikonočni ponedeljek : Monday, 9 April, 2012
4. Dan upora proti okupatorju : Friday, 27 April, 2012
5. Praznik dela : Tuesday, 1 May, 2012
6. Praznik dela : Wednesday, 2 May, 2012
7. Dan državnosti : Monday, 25 June, 2012
8. Marijino vnebovzetje : Wednesday, 15 August, 2012
9. Dan reformacije : Wednesday, 31 October, 2012
10. Dan spomina na mrtve : Thursday, 1 November, 2012
11. Božič : Tuesday, 25 December, 2012
12. Dan samostojnosti in enotnosti : Wednesday, 26 December, 2012

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Novo leto : Sunday, 1 January, 2012
2. Velika noč : Sunday, 8 April, 2012
3. Binkošti : Sunday, 27 May, 2012