Day of Thursday 1 October
Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.
05:38 sunrisesunset 17:21
Śravaṇa begins 09:49:24Daśamī ends 17:15:58
05:1407:1409:1411:1413:1415:1417:1419:14
447 of 703 minutes covered, the first 447
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1998
Boundaryin Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 4 min 54 s away. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Thursday 1 October
Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.
447 of 703 minutes covered, the first 447
Day of Friday 2 October
Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.
0 of 700 minutes covered
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 17:49 on Wed 30 Sep to 17:16 on Thu 1 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 09:49 on Thu 1 Oct to 09:24 on Fri 2 Oct. They are together from 09:49 on Thu 1 Oct to 17:16 on Thu 1 Oct.
1998-10-01T01:49:24Z → 1998-10-01T09:15:59Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:38–17:21 on the 1st, 05:39–17:19 on the 2nd.
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 447 of 703 minutes on the 1st and 0 of 700 on the 2nd.
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 294 s < 300 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Daqing, 1998: Thursday 1 October.
confidence: boundary (margin)
In Daqing, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1998 falls on Thursday 1 October. Daśamī runs from 17:49 on Wed 30 Sep to 17:16 on Thu 1 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 447 minutes. It is 4 min 54 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Thu 1 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Thu 1 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Thu 1 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 1st | Covered | Sunrise 2nd | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 18:49 → 02:16 | 06:48 | 0 min | 06:48 | 0 min | 30 Sep |
| Chicago | 20:49 → 04:16 | 06:48 | 0 min | 06:49 | 0 min | 30 Sep |
| Jersey City | 21:49 → 05:16 | 06:53 | 0 min | 06:54 | 0 min | 30 Sep |
| Port of Spain | 21:49 → 05:16 | 05:55 | 0 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 30 Sep |
| London | 02:49 → 10:16 | 07:01 | 195 min | 07:03 | 0 min | 1 Oct |
| Durban | 03:49 → 11:16 | 05:35 | 341 min | 05:34 | 0 min | 1 Oct |
| Dubai | 05:49 → 13:16 | 06:11 | 425 min | 06:11 | 0 min | 1 Oct |
| Delhi | 07:19 → 14:46 | 06:14 | 447 min | 06:15 | 0 min | 1 Oct |
| Kolkata | 07:19 → 14:46 | 05:28 | 447 min | 05:28 | 0 min | 1 Oct |
| Singapore | 09:49 → 17:16 | 06:52 | 447 min | 06:51 | 0 min | 1 Oct |
| Sydney | 11:49 → 19:16 | 05:33 | 368 min | 05:32 | 0 min | 1 Oct |
| Suva | 13:49 → 21:16 | 05:49 | 254 min | 05:48 | 0 min | 1 Oct |