Sunday 24 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 18:07 on Sat 23 Sep to 20:14 on Sun 24 Sep.

   1978-09-23T16:07:26Z → 1978-09-24T18:13:34Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:12–19:47 on the 23rd, 18:10–19:45 on the 24th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 95 of 95 minutes on the 23rd and 95 of 95 on the 24th.

   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 269 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 1978: Sunday 24 September.

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

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1978 falls on Sunday 24 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:07 on Sat 23 Sep to 20:14 on Sun 24 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 95 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 4 min 29 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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