Saturday 27 January

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Saptamī runs from 06:30 on Fri 26 Jan to 06:47 on Sat 27 Jan.

   1996-01-25T22:30:20Z → 1996-01-26T22:47:01Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:38–07:30 on the 26th, 05:38–07:30 on the 27th.

   arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Saptamī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 60 of 112 minutes on the 26th and 69 of 112 on the 27th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

4. 04

   Tie-break

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

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 2557 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Ratha Saptamī, Baoding, 1996: Saturday 27 January.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ratha Saptamī 1996 falls on Saturday 27 January. Saptamī runs from 06:30 on Fri 26 Jan to 06:47 on Sat 27 Jan and covers 69 of 112 minutes of aruṇodaya that dawn. It also reaches the previous dawn for 60 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

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