Midday of Saturday 30 September
Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.
madhyāhna begins 11:44 12:32 madhyāhna ends
10:5611:2011:4412:0812:3212:5613:20
48 of 48 minutes covered
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2017
Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 128 minutes.
One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.
Midday of Saturday 30 September
Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.
48 of 48 minutes covered
Midday of Sunday 1 October
Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.
0 of 48 minutes covered
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 02:20 on Sat 30 Sep to 04:06 on Sun 1 Oct.
2017-09-29T18:20:09Z → 2017-09-30T20:06:03Z
Kāla
Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:44–12:32 on the 30th, 11:44–12:32 on the 1st.
madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 30th and 0 of 48 on the 1st.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.
priority: unstated → only-day · margin 7681 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2017: Saturday 30 September.
confidence: determinate
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2017 falls on Saturday 30 September. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 02:20 on Sat 30 Sep to 04:06 on Sun 1 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Sat 30 Sep |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Sat 30 Sep |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Sat 30 Sep |
| 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 | Madhyāhna 29th | Covered | Madhyāhna 30th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 11:20 → 13:06 | 12:19 | 48 min | 12:19 | 48 min | 30 Sep |
| Chicago | 13:20 → 15:06 | 12:16 | 0 min | 12:16 | 48 min | 30 Sep |
| Jersey City | 14:20 → 16:06 | 12:22 | 0 min | 12:22 | 48 min | 30 Sep |
| Port of Spain | 14:20 → 16:06 | 11:32 | 0 min | 11:32 | 48 min | 30 Sep |
| London | 19:20 → 21:06 | 12:26 | 0 min | 12:26 | 48 min | 30 Sep |
| Durban | 20:20 → 22:06 | 11:22 | 0 min | 11:22 | 48 min | 30 Sep |
| Dubai | 22:20 → 00:06 | 11:45 | 0 min | 11:45 | 48 min | 30 Sep |
| Delhi | 23:50 → 01:36 | 11:47 | 0 min | 11:47 | 48 min | 30 Sep |
| Kolkata | 23:50 → 01:36 | 11:03 | 0 min | 11:02 | 48 min | 30 Sep |
| Singapore | 02:20 → 04:06 | 12:31 | 0 min | 12:31 | 48 min | 30 Sep |
| Sydney | 04:20 → 07:06 | 11:22 | 0 min | 11:21 | 48 min | 1 Oct |
| Suva | 06:20 → 08:06 | 11:33 | 0 min | 11:33 | 48 min | 1 Oct |