Day of Thursday 9 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
05:49 sunrisesunset 17:04
Daśamī begins 08:03:36
05:2507:2509:2511:2513:2515:2517:25
541 of 675 minutes covered, the last 541
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 2008
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 Thursday 9 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
541 of 675 minutes covered, the last 541
Day of Friday 10 October
Qualifies with 206 of 672 minutes. Not taken.
206 of 672 minutes covered, the first 206
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 08:04 on Thu 9 Oct to 09:17 on Fri 10 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 07:53 on Thu 9 Oct to 09:40 on Fri 10 Oct. They are together from 08:04 on Thu 9 Oct to 09:17 on Fri 10 Oct.
2008-10-09T00:03:36Z → 2008-10-10T01:17:07Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:49–17:04 on the 9th, 05:51–17:02 on the 10th.
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 541 of 675 minutes on the 9th and 206 of 672 on the 10th.
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 8048 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Daqing, 2008: Thursday 9 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Daqing, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2008 falls on Thursday 9 October. Daśamī runs from 08:04 on Thu 9 Oct to 09:17 on Fri 10 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 541 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 206 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 | Thu 9 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Thu 9 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Thu 9 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 9th | Covered | Sunrise 10th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 17:04 → 18:17 | 06:54 | 683 min | 06:55 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Chicago | 19:04 → 20:17 | 06:57 | 681 min | 06:58 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Jersey City | 20:04 → 21:17 | 07:02 | 683 min | 07:03 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 20:04 → 21:17 | 05:55 | 716 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| London | 01:04 → 02:17 | 07:15 | 664 min | 07:17 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Durban | 02:04 → 03:17 | 05:25 | 757 min | 05:24 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Dubai | 04:04 → 05:17 | 06:15 | 703 min | 06:15 | 0 min | 9 Oct |
| Delhi | 05:34 → 06:47 | 06:19 | 699 min | 06:19 | 28 min | 9 Oct |
| Kolkata | 05:34 → 06:47 | 05:31 | 703 min | 05:31 | 76 min | 9 Oct |
| Singapore | 08:04 → 09:17 | 06:49 | 651 min | 06:49 | 148 min | 9 Oct |
| Sydney | 11:04 → 12:17 | 06:22 | 480 min | 06:21 | 357 min | 9 Oct |
| Suva | 12:04 → 13:17 | 05:42 | 362 min | 05:41 | 456 min | 10 Oct |