Monday 3 April

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Tṛtīyā runs from 12:45 on Sun 2 Apr to 14:46 on Mon 3 Apr.

   1995-04-02T04:45:14Z → 1995-04-03T06:46:17Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:58–12:46 on the 2nd, 11:58–12:46 on the 3rd.

   madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Tṛtīyā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 1 of 48 minutes on the 2nd and 48 of 48 on the 3rd.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

4. 04

   Tie-break

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

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 64 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Gaurī Tṛtīyā, Baoding, 1995: Monday 3 April.

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

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gaurī Tṛtīyā (Gangaur) 1995 falls on Monday 3 April. Tṛtīyā runs from 12:45 on Sun 2 Apr to 14:46 on Mon 3 Apr and covers all of madhyāhna that midday. It also reaches the previous midday for 1 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 1 min 04 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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