Sunday 18 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 17:45 on Sat 17 Sep to 20:04 on Sun 18 Sep.

   2022-09-17T08:44:43Z → 2022-09-18T11:03:35Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:30–20:04 on the 17th, 18:29–20:02 on the 18th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 93 of 93 minutes on the 17th and 94 of 94 on the 18th.

   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 66 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Daegu, 2022: Sunday 18 September.

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

Say it like this

In Daegu, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2022 falls on Sunday 18 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:45 on Sat 17 Sep to 20:04 on Sun 18 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 93 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 06 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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