Day of Thursday 11 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
06:23 sunrisesunset 17:46
Daśamī begins 09:22:13
05:5907:5909:5911:5913:5915:5917:59
504 of 683 minutes covered, the last 504
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2035
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 Thursday 11 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
504 of 683 minutes covered, the last 504
Day of Friday 12 October
Qualifies with 179 of 681 minutes. Not taken.
179 of 681 minutes covered, the first 179
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 09:22 on Thu 11 Oct to 11:15 on Fri 12 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 06:57 on Thu 11 Oct to 09:24 on Fri 12 Oct. They are together from 09:22 on Thu 11 Oct to 09:24 on Fri 12 Oct.
2035-10-11T01:22:13Z → 2035-10-12T01:23:34Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:23–17:46 on the 11th, 06:24–17:45 on the 12th.
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 504 of 683 minutes on the 11th and 179 of 681 on the 12th.
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 10738 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2035: Thursday 11 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2035 falls on Thursday 11 October. Daśamī runs from 09:22 on Thu 11 Oct to 11:15 on Fri 12 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 504 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 179 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 | Thu 11 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Thu 11 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Thu 11 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 11th | Covered | Sunrise 12th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 18:22 → 18:24 | 06:55 | 688 min | 06:56 | 0 min | 11 Oct |
| Chicago | 20:22 → 20:24 | 06:59 | 677 min | 07:00 | 0 min | 11 Oct |
| Jersey City | 21:22 → 21:24 | 07:03 | 679 min | 07:04 | 0 min | 11 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 21:22 → 21:24 | 05:55 | 715 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 11 Oct |
| London | 02:22 → 02:24 | 07:18 | 658 min | 07:19 | 0 min | 11 Oct |
| Durban | 03:22 → 03:24 | 05:23 | 760 min | 05:22 | 0 min | 11 Oct |
| Dubai | 05:22 → 05:24 | 06:15 | 700 min | 06:16 | 0 min | 11 Oct |
| Delhi | 06:52 → 06:54 | 06:20 | 664 min | 06:20 | 33 min | 11 Oct |
| Kolkata | 06:52 → 06:54 | 05:32 | 623 min | 05:32 | 82 min | 11 Oct |
| Singapore | 09:22 → 09:24 | 06:49 | 572 min | 06:49 | 155 min | 11 Oct |
| Sydney | 12:22 → 12:24 | 06:20 | 402 min | 06:19 | 365 min | 11 Oct |
| Suva | 13:22 → 13:24 | 05:41 | 283 min | 05:40 | 463 min | 12 Oct |