Tuesday 17 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 20:23 on Mon 16 Sep to 20:54 on Tue 17 Sep.

   2041-09-16T17:23:10Z → 2041-09-17T17:53:36Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:24–20:56 on the 16th, 19:22–20:55 on the 17th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 33 of 92 minutes on the 16th and 92 of 93 on the 17th.

   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 69 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 2041: Tuesday 17 September.

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

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2041 falls on Tuesday 17 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 20:23 on Mon 16 Sep to 20:54 on Tue 17 Sep and covers 92 of 93 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 33 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 1 min 09 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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