Wednesday 12 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 19:11 on Wed 12 Sep to 19:31 on Thu 13 Sep.

   1979-09-12T18:11:28Z → 1979-09-13T18:30:58Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:01–20:32 on the 12th, 18:59–20:31 on the 13th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 81 of 92 minutes on the 12th and 32 of 92 on the 13th.

   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 658 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Algiers, 1979: Wednesday 12 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Algiers, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1979 falls on Wednesday 12 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 19:11 on Wed 12 Sep to 19:31 on Thu 13 Sep and covers 81 of 92 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 32 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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