Friday 27 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 19:24 on Thu 26 Sep to 18:54 on Fri 27 Sep.

   1918-09-26T16:58:45Z → 1918-09-27T16:28:32Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:49–19:24 on the 26th, 17:47–19:23 on the 27th.

   pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 1 of 96 minutes on the 26th and 66 of 96 on the 27th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both evenings qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 41 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Aleppo, 1918: Friday 27 September.

   confidence: boundary (margin, tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Aleppo, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1918 falls on Friday 27 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 19:24 on Thu 26 Sep to 18:54 on Fri 27 Sep and covers 66 of 96 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 1 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 0 min 41 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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