Day of Saturday 4 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
06:16 sunrisesunset 17:58
Śravaṇa begins 16:13:00
05:5207:5209:5211:5213:5215:5217:5219:52
105 of 703 minutes covered, the last 105
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1919
Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Saturday 4 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
105 of 703 minutes covered, the last 105
Day of Sunday 5 October
Qualifies with 41 of 700 minutes. Not taken.
41 of 700 minutes covered, the first 41
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 06:37 on Sat 4 Oct to 06:57 on Sun 5 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 16:13 on Sat 4 Oct to 16:52 on Sun 5 Oct. They are together from 16:13 on Sat 4 Oct to 06:57 on Sun 5 Oct.
1919-10-04T08:13:00Z → 1919-10-04T22:57:13Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:16–17:58 on the 4th, 06:17–17:57 on the 5th.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 105 of 703 minutes on the 4th and 41 of 700 on the 5th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Both days qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 2435 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1919: Saturday 4 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1919 falls on Saturday 4 October. Daśamī runs from 06:37 on Sat 4 Oct to 06:57 on Sun 5 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 105 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 41 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the day they share longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Sat 4 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Sat 4 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Sat 4 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“S 10 Vijaya dasami (In Bengal it is observed as paraviddha, covering one muhurta from sunrise. In other places, if it touches Sravana naksatra in the day time it is observed on that day), Sarasvati visarjana (to be observed in naksatra Sravana), Dasahara.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104. The Bengal reading (paraviddha, one muhūrta from sunrise) is not applied.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 4th | Covered | Sunrise 5th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 01:13 → 15:57 | 06:49 | 548 min | 06:50 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| Chicago | 03:13 → 17:57 | 06:50 | 667 min | 06:51 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| Jersey City | 04:13 → 18:57 | 06:55 | 700 min | 06:56 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 04:13 → 18:57 | 05:55 | 720 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| London | 08:13 → 22:57 | 06:04 | 561 min | 06:06 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| Durban | 10:13 → 00:57 | 05:32 | 465 min | 05:31 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| Dubai | 11:54 → 02:38 | 05:53 | 351 min | 05:53 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| Delhi | 13:43 → 04:27 | 06:15 | 262 min | 06:16 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| Kolkata | 13:43 → 04:27 | 05:29 | 219 min | 05:29 | 0 min | 4 Oct |
| Singapore | 15:13 → 05:57 | 05:51 | 163 min | 05:51 | 6 min | 4 Oct |
| Sydney | 18:13 → 08:57 | 05:30 | 0 min | 05:29 | 208 min | 5 Oct |
| Suva | 20:13 → 10:57 | 05:47 | 0 min | 05:47 | 311 min | 5 Oct |