Day of Wednesday 7 October
Qualifies with 160 of 690 minutes. Not taken.
06:21 sunrisesunset 17:51
Śravaṇa begins 15:11:07
05:5707:5709:5711:5713:5715:5717:5719:57
160 of 690 minutes covered, the last 160
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2076
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 Wednesday 7 October
Qualifies with 160 of 690 minutes. Not taken.
160 of 690 minutes covered, the last 160
Day of Thursday 8 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
162 of 688 minutes covered, the first 162
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 11:33 on Wed 7 Oct to 09:03 on Thu 8 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 15:11 on Wed 7 Oct to 13:22 on Thu 8 Oct. They are together from 15:11 on Wed 7 Oct to 09:03 on Thu 8 Oct.
2076-10-07T07:11:08Z → 2076-10-08T01:03:05Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:21–17:51 on the 7th, 06:22–17:49 on the 8th.
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 160 of 690 minutes on the 7th and 162 of 688 on the 8th.
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 9582 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2076: Thursday 8 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2076 falls on Thursday 8 October. Daśamī runs from 11:33 on Wed 7 Oct to 09:03 on Thu 8 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 162 minutes. They are together in the day time on the previous day too, for 160 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 8 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Thu 8 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Thu 8 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 7th | Covered | Sunrise 8th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 00:11 → 18:03 | 06:53 | 670 min | 06:54 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Chicago | 02:11 → 20:03 | 06:56 | 685 min | 06:57 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Jersey City | 03:11 → 21:03 | 07:00 | 686 min | 07:02 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 03:11 → 21:03 | 05:55 | 717 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| London | 08:11 → 02:03 | 07:13 | 612 min | 07:15 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Durban | 09:11 → 03:03 | 05:27 | 530 min | 05:26 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Dubai | 11:11 → 05:03 | 06:14 | 408 min | 06:15 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Delhi | 12:41 → 06:33 | 06:18 | 318 min | 06:19 | 14 min | 7 Oct |
| Kolkata | 12:41 → 06:33 | 05:31 | 277 min | 05:31 | 62 min | 7 Oct |
| Singapore | 15:11 → 09:03 | 06:50 | 224 min | 06:50 | 133 min | 7 Oct |
| Sydney | 18:11 → 12:03 | 06:24 | 52 min | 06:23 | 340 min | 8 Oct |
| Suva | 19:11 → 13:03 | 05:44 | 0 min | 05:43 | 440 min | 8 Oct |