Saturday 14 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 16:19 on Sat 14 Sep to 18:40 on Sun 15 Sep.

   1968-09-14T07:18:55Z → 1968-09-15T09:39:39Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:35–20:07 on the 14th, 18:33–20:06 on the 15th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 92 of 92 minutes on the 14th and 7 of 93 on the 15th.

   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 391 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Daegu, 1968: Saturday 14 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Daegu, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1968 falls on Saturday 14 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 16:19 on Sat 14 Sep to 18:40 on Sun 15 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 7 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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