Day of Tuesday 9 October
Qualifies with 58 of 690 minutes. Not taken.
06:21 sunrisesunset 17:50
Daśamī begins 16:51:52
05:5707:5709:5711:5713:5715:5717:5719:57
58 of 690 minutes covered, the last 58
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1951
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 Tuesday 9 October
Qualifies with 58 of 690 minutes. Not taken.
58 of 690 minutes covered, the last 58
Day of Wednesday 10 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
515 of 687 minutes covered, the first 515
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 16:52 on Tue 9 Oct to 14:56 on Wed 10 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 16:44 on Tue 9 Oct to 15:33 on Wed 10 Oct. They are together from 16:52 on Tue 9 Oct to 14:56 on Wed 10 Oct.
1951-10-09T08:51:53Z → 1951-10-10T06:56:17Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:21–17:50 on the 9th, 06:22–17:49 on the 10th.
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 58 of 690 minutes on the 9th and 515 of 687 on the 10th.
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 3498 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1951: Wednesday 10 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1951 falls on Wednesday 10 October. Daśamī runs from 16:52 on Tue 9 Oct to 14:56 on Wed 10 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 515 minutes. They are together in the day time on the previous day too, for 58 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 | Wed 10 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Wed 10 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Wed 10 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 9th | Covered | Sunrise 10th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 00:52 → 22:56 | 05:53 | 694 min | 05:54 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Chicago | 02:52 → 00:56 | 05:56 | 684 min | 05:57 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Jersey City | 03:52 → 01:56 | 06:01 | 686 min | 06:02 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 04:52 → 02:56 | 05:55 | 717 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| London | 09:52 → 07:56 | 07:13 | 510 min | 07:15 | 41 min | 9 Oct |
| Durban | 10:52 → 08:56 | 05:26 | 429 min | 05:25 | 211 min | 9 Oct |
| Dubai | 12:52 → 10:56 | 06:14 | 306 min | 06:14 | 282 min | 9 Oct |
| Delhi | 14:22 → 12:26 | 06:18 | 217 min | 06:19 | 368 min | 10 Oct |
| Kolkata | 14:22 → 12:26 | 05:31 | 175 min | 05:31 | 415 min | 10 Oct |
| Singapore | 16:22 → 14:26 | 06:20 | 123 min | 06:19 | 487 min | 10 Oct |
| Sydney | 18:52 → 16:56 | 05:23 | 0 min | 05:22 | 694 min | 10 Oct |
| Suva | 20:52 → 18:56 | 05:43 | 0 min | 05:42 | 743 min | 10 Oct |