Day of Friday 8 October
Qualifies with 182 of 692 minutes. Not taken.
07:20 sunrisesunset 18:52
Śravaṇa begins 15:50:00
06:5608:5610:5612:5614:5616:5618:5620:56
182 of 692 minutes covered, the last 182
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1943
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 Friday 8 October
Qualifies with 182 of 692 minutes. Not taken.
182 of 692 minutes covered, the last 182
Day of Saturday 9 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
264 of 690 minutes covered, the first 264
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 14:07 on Fri 8 Oct to 11:44 on Sat 9 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 15:50 on Fri 8 Oct to 14:10 on Sat 9 Oct. They are together from 15:50 on Fri 8 Oct to 11:44 on Sat 9 Oct.
1943-10-08T06:50:00Z → 1943-10-09T02:44:20Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 07:20–18:52 on the 8th, 07:21–18:50 on the 9th.
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 182 of 692 minutes on the 8th and 264 of 690 on the 9th.
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 10909 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1943: Saturday 9 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1943 falls on Saturday 9 October. Daśamī runs from 14:07 on Fri 8 Oct to 11:44 on Sat 9 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 264 minutes. They are together in the day time on the previous day too, for 182 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 9 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Sat 9 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Sat 9 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 8th | Covered | Sunrise 9th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 23:50 → 19:44 | 06:52 | 696 min | 06:53 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Chicago | 01:50 → 21:44 | 06:55 | 687 min | 06:56 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Jersey City | 02:50 → 22:44 | 06:59 | 689 min | 07:01 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 03:50 → 23:44 | 06:55 | 718 min | 06:55 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| London | 07:50 → 03:44 | 07:11 | 634 min | 07:13 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Durban | 09:50 → 05:44 | 06:27 | 550 min | 06:26 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Dubai | 10:50 → 06:44 | 06:14 | 429 min | 06:14 | 30 min | 8 Oct |
| Delhi | 13:20 → 09:14 | 07:17 | 340 min | 07:18 | 116 min | 8 Oct |
| Kolkata | 13:20 → 09:14 | 06:30 | 298 min | 06:31 | 164 min | 8 Oct |
| Singapore | 15:50 → 11:44 | 07:50 | 245 min | 07:50 | 235 min | 8 Oct |
| Sydney | 17:50 → 13:44 | 06:25 | 72 min | 06:24 | 441 min | 9 Oct |
| Suva | 18:50 → 14:44 | 05:44 | 0 min | 05:43 | 541 min | 9 Oct |