Saturday 8 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 19:58 on Fri 7 Sep to 20:23 on Sat 8 Sep.

   1917-09-07T18:58:27Z → 1917-09-08T19:23:16Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:08–20:38 on the 7th, 19:06–20:37 on the 8th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 40 of 90 minutes on the 7th and 77 of 90 on the 8th.

   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 814 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Algiers, 1917: Saturday 8 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Algiers, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1917 falls on Saturday 8 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 19:58 on Fri 7 Sep to 20:23 on Sat 8 Sep and covers 77 of 90 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 40 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

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