Monday 2 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 18:37 on Sun 1 Oct to 20:21 on Mon 2 Oct.

   2056-10-01T10:37:00Z → 2056-10-02T12:20:39Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:00–19:38 on the 1st, 17:59–19:37 on the 2nd.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 61 of 98 minutes on the 1st and 98 of 98 on the 2nd.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

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 2206 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Baoding, 2056: Monday 2 October.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2056 falls on Monday 2 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:37 on Sun 1 Oct to 20:21 on Mon 2 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 61 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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