Monday 22 January

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Saptamī runs from 07:26 on Sun 21 Jan to 07:30 on Mon 22 Jan.

   1934-01-20T23:25:48Z → 1934-01-21T23:30:28Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:40–07:34 on the 21st, 05:40–07:33 on the 22nd.

   arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Saptamī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 8 of 113 minutes on the 21st and 110 of 113 on the 22nd.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

4. 04

   Tie-break

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

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 151 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Ratha Saptamī, Baoding, 1934: Monday 22 January.

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

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ratha Saptamī 1934 falls on Monday 22 January. Saptamī runs from 07:26 on Sun 21 Jan to 07:30 on Mon 22 Jan and covers 110 of 113 minutes of aruṇodaya that dawn. It also reaches the previous dawn for 8 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 2 min 31 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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