Day of Saturday 7 October
Qualifies with 311 of 708 minutes. Not taken.
05:46 sunrisesunset 17:34
Śravaṇa begins 12:23:23
05:2207:2209:2211:2213:2215:2217:2219:22
311 of 708 minutes covered, the last 311
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 2000
Boundaryin Chattogram, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
Decide it for
22°20′ N 91°50′ E · Asia/Dhaka · GeoNames 1205733
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Saturday 7 October
Qualifies with 311 of 708 minutes. Not taken.
311 of 708 minutes covered, the last 311
Day of Sunday 8 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
332 of 707 minutes covered, the first 332
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 08:55 on Sat 7 Oct to 11:19 on Sun 8 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 12:23 on Sat 7 Oct to 15:14 on Sun 8 Oct. They are together from 12:23 on Sat 7 Oct to 11:19 on Sun 8 Oct.
2000-10-07T06:23:24Z → 2000-10-08T05:18:40Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:46–17:34 on the 7th, 05:47–17:33 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 311 of 708 minutes on the 7th and 332 of 707 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 18658 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Chattogram, 2000: Sunday 8 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Chattogram, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2000 falls on Sunday 8 October. Daśamī runs from 08:55 on Sat 7 Oct to 11:19 on Sun 8 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 332 minutes. They are together in the day time on the previous day too, for 311 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 | Sun 8 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Sun 8 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Sun 8 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Chattogram. | ||
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 | 23:23 → 22:19 | 06:52 | 696 min | 06:53 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Chicago | 01:23 → 00:19 | 06:55 | 686 min | 06:56 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Jersey City | 02:23 → 01:19 | 07:00 | 688 min | 07:01 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 02:23 → 01:19 | 05:55 | 718 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| London | 07:23 → 06:19 | 07:12 | 660 min | 07:13 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Durban | 08:23 → 07:19 | 05:27 | 577 min | 05:26 | 113 min | 7 Oct |
| Dubai | 10:23 → 09:19 | 06:14 | 456 min | 06:14 | 185 min | 7 Oct |
| Delhi | 11:53 → 10:49 | 06:18 | 366 min | 06:18 | 271 min | 7 Oct |
| Kolkata | 11:53 → 10:49 | 05:30 | 325 min | 05:31 | 318 min | 7 Oct |
| Singapore | 14:23 → 13:19 | 06:50 | 272 min | 06:50 | 389 min | 8 Oct |
| Sydney | 17:23 → 16:19 | 06:25 | 99 min | 06:23 | 595 min | 8 Oct |
| Suva | 18:23 → 17:19 | 05:44 | 0 min | 05:43 | 696 min | 8 Oct |