Tuesday 5 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 15:58 on Tue 5 Oct to 18:24 on Wed 6 Oct.

   2004-10-05T20:57:49Z → 2004-10-06T23:23:50Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:24–20:04 on the 5th, 18:23–20:03 on the 6th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 100 of 100 minutes on the 5th and 1 of 100 on the 6th.

   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 64 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Chicago, 2004: Tuesday 5 October.

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

Say it like this

In Chicago, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2004 falls on Tuesday 5 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 15:58 on Tue 5 Oct to 18:24 on Wed 6 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 1 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 04 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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