Define a period

...

How many working days in year 2013?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2013 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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2013.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. Neijoerschdag : Tuesday, 1 January, 2013
2. Ouschterméindeg : Monday, 1 April, 2013
3. Dag vun der Aarbecht : Wednesday, 1 May, 2013
4. Christi Himmelfaart : Thursday, 9 May, 2013
5. Péngschtméindeg : Monday, 20 May, 2013
6. Léiffrawëschdag : Thursday, 15 August, 2013
7. Allerhellegen : Friday, 1 November, 2013
8. Chrëschtdag : Wednesday, 25 December, 2013
9. Stiefesdag : Thursday, 26 December, 2013

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. Nationalfeierdag : Sunday, 23 June, 2013