Wednesday 3 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 19:49 on Tue 2 Oct to 20:59 on Wed 3 Oct.

   1923-10-02T16:48:48Z → 1923-10-03T17:59:17Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:15–19:53 on the 2nd, 18:14–19:52 on the 3rd.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 4 of 98 minutes on the 2nd and 98 of 98 on the 3rd.

   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 232 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Aleppo, 1923: Wednesday 3 October.

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

Say it like this

In Aleppo, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1923 falls on Wednesday 3 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 19:49 on Tue 2 Oct to 20:59 on Wed 3 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 4 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 3 min 52 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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