Day of Thursday 8 October
Qualifies with 208 of 689 minutes. Not taken.
06:21 sunrisesunset 17:50
Śravaṇa begins 14:21:35
05:5707:5709:5711:5713:5715:5717:5719:57
208 of 689 minutes covered, the last 208
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2065
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 8 October
Qualifies with 208 of 689 minutes. Not taken.
208 of 689 minutes covered, the last 208
Day of Friday 9 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
305 of 686 minutes covered, the first 305
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 11:58 on Thu 8 Oct to 11:27 on Fri 9 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 14:22 on Thu 8 Oct to 14:34 on Fri 9 Oct. They are together from 14:22 on Thu 8 Oct to 11:27 on Fri 9 Oct.
2065-10-08T06:21:36Z → 2065-10-09T03:27:22Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:21–17:50 on the 8th, 06:22–17:48 on the 9th.
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 208 of 689 minutes on the 8th and 305 of 686 on the 9th.
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 12488 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2065: Friday 9 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2065 falls on Friday 9 October. Daśamī runs from 11:58 on Thu 8 Oct to 11:27 on Fri 9 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 305 minutes. They are together in the day time on the previous day too, for 208 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 | Fri 9 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Fri 9 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Fri 9 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 8th | Covered | Sunrise 9th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 23:22 → 20:27 | 06:54 | 693 min | 06:54 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Chicago | 01:22 → 22:27 | 06:56 | 683 min | 06:57 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Jersey City | 02:22 → 23:27 | 07:01 | 685 min | 07:02 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 02:22 → 23:27 | 05:55 | 717 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| London | 07:22 → 04:27 | 07:14 | 660 min | 07:16 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Durban | 08:22 → 05:27 | 05:26 | 580 min | 05:25 | 3 min | 8 Oct |
| Dubai | 10:22 → 07:27 | 06:14 | 456 min | 06:15 | 73 min | 8 Oct |
| Delhi | 11:52 → 08:57 | 06:18 | 367 min | 06:19 | 158 min | 8 Oct |
| Kolkata | 11:52 → 08:57 | 05:31 | 326 min | 05:31 | 206 min | 8 Oct |
| Singapore | 14:22 → 11:27 | 06:50 | 273 min | 06:49 | 278 min | 9 Oct |
| Sydney | 17:22 → 14:27 | 06:23 | 102 min | 06:22 | 486 min | 9 Oct |
| Suva | 18:22 → 15:27 | 05:43 | 0 min | 05:42 | 585 min | 9 Oct |