Day of Saturday 5 October
Qualifies with 86 of 699 minutes. Not taken.
06:17 sunrisesunset 17:56
Śravaṇa begins 16:30:12
05:5307:5309:5311:5313:5315:5317:5319:53
86 of 699 minutes covered, the last 86
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1946
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 5 October
Qualifies with 86 of 699 minutes. Not taken.
86 of 699 minutes covered, the last 86
Day of Sunday 6 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
223 of 696 minutes covered, the first 223
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 08:51 on Sat 5 Oct to 10:01 on Sun 6 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 16:30 on Sat 5 Oct to 18:01 on Sun 6 Oct. They are together from 16:30 on Sat 5 Oct to 10:01 on Sun 6 Oct.
1946-10-05T08:30:13Z → 1946-10-06T02:00:39Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:17–17:56 on the 5th, 06:18–17:54 on the 6th.
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 86 of 699 minutes on the 5th and 223 of 696 on the 6th.
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 5148 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1946: Sunday 6 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1946 falls on Sunday 6 October. Daśamī runs from 08:51 on Sat 5 Oct to 10:01 on Sun 6 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 223 minutes. They are together in the day time on the previous day too, for 86 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 | Sun 6 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Sun 6 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Sun 6 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 5th | Covered | Sunrise 6th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 00:30 → 18:01 | 05:50 | 702 min | 05:51 | 0 min | 5 Oct |
| Chicago | 02:30 → 20:01 | 05:52 | 695 min | 05:53 | 0 min | 5 Oct |
| Jersey City | 03:30 → 21:01 | 05:57 | 696 min | 05:58 | 0 min | 5 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 04:30 → 22:01 | 05:55 | 719 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 5 Oct |
| London | 09:30 → 02:01 | 07:07 | 540 min | 06:09 | 0 min | 5 Oct |
| Durban | 10:30 → 04:01 | 05:31 | 449 min | 05:29 | 0 min | 5 Oct |
| Dubai | 12:30 → 06:01 | 06:12 | 332 min | 06:13 | 0 min | 5 Oct |
| Delhi | 14:00 → 07:31 | 06:16 | 243 min | 06:16 | 74 min | 5 Oct |
| Kolkata | 14:00 → 07:31 | 05:29 | 201 min | 05:30 | 121 min | 5 Oct |
| Singapore | 16:00 → 09:31 | 06:21 | 146 min | 06:20 | 190 min | 6 Oct |
| Sydney | 18:30 → 12:01 | 05:29 | 0 min | 05:27 | 393 min | 6 Oct |
| Suva | 20:30 → 14:01 | 05:46 | 0 min | 05:45 | 495 min | 6 Oct |