Wednesday 6 March

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pūrṇimā runs from 17:11 on Mon 4 Mar to 18:23 on Tue 5 Mar.

   1996-03-04T08:11:19Z → 1996-03-05T09:22:42Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 16:05–18:23 on the 4th, 16:05–18:24 on the 5th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 72 of 138 minutes on the 4th and 137 of 139 on the 5th.

   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 71 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Counted

   Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Tuesday 5 March is the day taken above.

   follows: holika-dahana + 1 d

6. 06

   Ruling

   Holī, Daegu, 1996: Wednesday 6 March.

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

Say it like this

In Daegu, Holī 1996 falls on Wednesday 6 March. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Tuesday 5 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 17:11 on Mon 4 Mar to 18:23 on Tue 5 Mar and covers 137 of 139 minutes of sāyāhna on the 5th. It also reaches the previous late afternoon for 72 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 11 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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