Thursday 10 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 20:36 on Wed 9 Sep to 22:05 on Thu 10 Sep.

   2020-09-09T20:36:14Z → 2020-09-10T22:05:18Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:15–20:49 on the 9th, 19:14–20:48 on the 10th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 13 of 94 minutes on the 9th and 94 of 94 on the 10th.

   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 766 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Dakar, 2020: Thursday 10 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Dakar, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2020 falls on Thursday 10 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 20:36 on Wed 9 Sep to 22:05 on Thu 10 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 13 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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