Sunday 1 March

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pūrṇimā runs from 17:45 on Fri 28 Feb to 16:38 on Sat 29 Feb.

   2048-02-28T15:44:56Z → 2048-02-29T14:38:13Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 15:48–18:01 on the 28th, 15:49–18:03 on the 29th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 16 of 133 minutes on the 28th and 49 of 134 on the 29th.

   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 978 s

5. 05

   Counted

   Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Saturday 29 February is the day taken above.

   follows: holika-dahana + 1 d

6. 06

   Ruling

   Holī, Bucharest, 2048: Sunday 1 March.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Holī 2048 falls on Sunday 1 March. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Saturday 29 February. Pūrṇimā runs from 17:45 on Fri 28 Feb to 16:38 on Sat 29 Feb and covers 49 of 134 minutes of sāyāhna on the 29th. It also reaches the previous late afternoon for 16 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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