Day of Monday 15 October
Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.
05:57 sunrisesunset 16:54
05:3307:3309:3311:3313:3315:3317:33
0 of 658 minutes covered
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1945
Boundaryin Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 2 min 20 s away. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Monday 15 October
Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.
0 of 658 minutes covered
Day of Tuesday 16 October
Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.
655 of 655 minutes covered
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 05:43 on Tue 16 Oct to 04:41 on Wed 17 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 16:49 on Mon 15 Oct to 16:55 on Tue 16 Oct. They are together from 05:43 on Tue 16 Oct to 16:55 on Tue 16 Oct.
1945-10-15T21:43:23Z → 1945-10-16T08:54:59Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:57–16:54 on the 15th, 05:58–16:53 on the 16th.
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 0 of 658 minutes on the 15th and 655 of 655 on the 16th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Only one day qualifies. No tie-break is needed.
priority: unstated → only-day · margin 140 s < 300 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Daqing, 1945: Tuesday 16 October.
confidence: boundary (margin)
In Daqing, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1945 falls on Tuesday 16 October. Daśamī runs from 05:43 on Tue 16 Oct to 04:41 on Wed 17 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 655 minutes. It is 2 min 20 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Tue 16 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Tue 16 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Tue 16 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 15th | Covered | Sunrise 16th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 13:43 → 00:55 | 05:58 | 215 min | 05:59 | 0 min | 15 Oct |
| Chicago | 15:43 → 02:55 | 06:03 | 86 min | 06:04 | 0 min | 15 Oct |
| Jersey City | 16:43 → 03:55 | 06:07 | 33 min | 06:09 | 0 min | 15 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 17:43 → 04:55 | 05:55 | 5 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 15 Oct |
| London | 21:43 → 08:55 | 06:24 | 0 min | 06:26 | 149 min | 16 Oct |
| Durban | 23:43 → 10:55 | 05:19 | 0 min | 05:18 | 337 min | 16 Oct |
| Dubai | 01:43 → 12:55 | 06:17 | 0 min | 06:17 | 398 min | 16 Oct |
| Delhi | 03:13 → 14:25 | 06:22 | 0 min | 06:22 | 483 min | 16 Oct |
| Kolkata | 03:13 → 14:25 | 05:33 | 0 min | 05:33 | 532 min | 16 Oct |
| Singapore | 05:13 → 16:25 | 06:18 | 0 min | 06:18 | 607 min | 16 Oct |
| Sydney | 07:43 → 18:55 | 05:15 | 0 min | 05:14 | 625 min | 16 Oct |
| Suva | 09:43 → 20:55 | 05:38 | 0 min | 05:37 | 504 min | 16 Oct |