Tuesday 29 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 17:51 on Tue 29 Sep to 18:04 on Wed 30 Sep.

   1953-09-29T09:51:23Z → 1953-09-30T10:03:35Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:25–19:03 on the 29th, 17:23–19:01 on the 30th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 71 of 98 minutes on the 29th and 41 of 98 on the 30th.

   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 1584 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Daqing, 1953: Tuesday 29 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Daqing, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1953 falls on Tuesday 29 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:51 on Tue 29 Sep to 18:04 on Wed 30 Sep and covers 71 of 98 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 41 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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