Day of Tuesday 7 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
05:46 sunrisesunset 17:09
Śravaṇa begins 10:11:26
05:2207:2209:2211:2213:2215:2217:22
418 of 683 minutes covered, the last 418
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1924
Boundaryin Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Tuesday 7 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
418 of 683 minutes covered, the last 418
Day of Wednesday 8 October
Qualifies with 37 of 680 minutes. Not taken.
37 of 680 minutes covered, the first 37
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 07:49 on Tue 7 Oct to 06:24 on Wed 8 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 10:11 on Tue 7 Oct to 09:31 on Wed 8 Oct. They are together from 10:11 on Tue 7 Oct to 06:24 on Wed 8 Oct.
1924-10-07T02:11:27Z → 1924-10-07T22:24:04Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:46–17:09 on the 7th, 05:47–17:07 on the 8th.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 418 of 683 minutes on the 7th and 37 of 680 on the 8th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Both days qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 2211 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Daqing, 1924: Tuesday 7 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Daqing, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1924 falls on Tuesday 7 October. Daśamī runs from 07:49 on Tue 7 Oct to 06:24 on Wed 8 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 418 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 37 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the day they share longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Tue 7 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Tue 7 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Tue 7 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Daqing. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“S 10 Vijaya dasami (In Bengal it is observed as paraviddha, covering one muhurta from sunrise. In other places, if it touches Sravana naksatra in the day time it is observed on that day), Sarasvati visarjana (to be observed in naksatra Sravana), Dasahara.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104. The Bengal reading (paraviddha, one muhūrta from sunrise) is not applied.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 7th | Covered | Sunrise 8th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 18:11 → 14:24 | 05:52 | 512 min | 05:53 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Chicago | 20:11 → 16:24 | 05:54 | 630 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Jersey City | 21:11 → 17:24 | 05:59 | 685 min | 06:00 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 22:11 → 18:24 | 05:55 | 718 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| London | 02:11 → 22:24 | 06:11 | 674 min | 06:12 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Durban | 04:11 → 00:24 | 05:28 | 752 min | 05:27 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Dubai | 06:11 → 02:24 | 06:13 | 706 min | 06:14 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Delhi | 07:41 → 03:54 | 06:17 | 619 min | 06:18 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Kolkata | 07:41 → 03:54 | 05:30 | 577 min | 05:30 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Singapore | 09:11 → 05:24 | 05:50 | 524 min | 05:50 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Sydney | 12:11 → 08:24 | 05:25 | 350 min | 05:24 | 180 min | 7 Oct |
| Suva | 14:11 → 10:24 | 05:44 | 233 min | 05:43 | 281 min | 8 Oct |