Sunday 12 March

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pūrṇimā runs from 15:54 on Sat 11 Mar to 15:54 on Sun 12 Mar.

   2017-03-11T14:53:56Z → 2017-03-12T14:53:47Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 15:45–18:03 on the 11th, 15:46–18:05 on the 12th.

   sayahna: day-muhurta-13-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 129 of 139 minutes on the 11th and 8 of 139 on the 12th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both late afternoons qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 484 s

5. 05

   Counted

   Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Saturday 11 March is the day taken above.

   follows: holika-dahana + 1 d

6. 06

   Ruling

   Holī, Berlin, 2017: Sunday 12 March.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Berlin, Holī 2017 falls on Sunday 12 March. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Saturday 11 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 15:54 on Sat 11 Mar to 15:54 on Sun 12 Mar and covers 129 of 139 minutes of sāyāhna on the 11th. It also reaches the next late afternoon for 8 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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