Tuesday 11 November

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pratipadā runs from 18:56 on Mon 10 Nov to 19:35 on Tue 11 Nov.

   2053-11-10T10:55:44Z → 2053-11-11T11:35:17Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:08–18:59 on the 10th, 17:07–18:58 on the 11th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Pratipadā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 3 of 110 minutes on the 10th and 111 of 111 on the 11th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

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 180 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 2053: Tuesday 11 November.

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

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 2053 falls on Tuesday 11 November. Pratipadā runs from 18:56 on Mon 10 Nov to 19:35 on Tue 11 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 3 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 3 min 00 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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