Tuesday 29 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 17:51 on Tue 29 Sep to 18:04 on Wed 30 Sep.

   1953-09-29T09:51:23Z → 1953-09-30T10:03:35Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:05–19:42 on the 29th, 18:03–19:41 on the 30th.

   pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 97 of 97 minutes on the 29th and 0 of 97 on the 30th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

4. 04

   Tie-break

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

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 14 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1953: Tuesday 29 September.

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

Say it like this

In Baoding, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1953 falls on Tuesday 29 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:51 on Tue 29 Sep to 18:04 on Wed 30 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 0 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 0 min 14 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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