Day of Tuesday 11 October
Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.
05:52 sunrisesunset 17:00
05:2807:2809:2811:2813:2815:2817:28
668 of 668 minutes covered
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2016
Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 269 minutes.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Tuesday 11 October
Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.
668 of 668 minutes covered
Day of Wednesday 12 October
Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.
0 of 665 minutes covered
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 01:24 on Tue 11 Oct to 00:58 on Wed 12 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 22:10 on Mon 10 Oct to 22:30 on Tue 11 Oct. They are together from 01:24 on Tue 11 Oct to 22:30 on Tue 11 Oct.
2016-10-10T17:23:44Z → 2016-10-11T14:29:46Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:52–17:00 on the 11th, 05:54–16:59 on the 12th.
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 668 of 668 minutes on the 11th and 0 of 665 on the 12th.
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 16112 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Daqing, 2016: Tuesday 11 October.
confidence: determinate
In Daqing, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2016 falls on Tuesday 11 October. Daśamī runs from 01:24 on Tue 11 Oct to 00:58 on Wed 12 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 668 minutes.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Tue 11 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Tue 11 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Tue 11 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 10th | Covered | Sunrise 11th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 10:24 → 07:30 | 06:55 | 480 min | 06:56 | 34 min | 10 Oct |
| Chicago | 12:24 → 09:30 | 06:58 | 352 min | 06:59 | 150 min | 10 Oct |
| Jersey City | 13:24 → 10:30 | 07:03 | 299 min | 07:04 | 206 min | 10 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 13:24 → 10:30 | 05:55 | 267 min | 05:55 | 275 min | 11 Oct |
| London | 18:24 → 15:30 | 07:17 | 0 min | 07:19 | 491 min | 11 Oct |
| Durban | 19:24 → 16:30 | 05:24 | 0 min | 05:22 | 667 min | 11 Oct |
| Dubai | 21:24 → 18:30 | 06:15 | 0 min | 06:15 | 700 min | 11 Oct |
| Delhi | 22:54 → 20:00 | 06:19 | 0 min | 06:20 | 695 min | 11 Oct |
| Kolkata | 22:54 → 20:00 | 05:31 | 0 min | 05:32 | 703 min | 11 Oct |
| Singapore | 01:24 → 22:30 | 06:49 | 0 min | 06:49 | 725 min | 11 Oct |
| Sydney | 04:24 → 01:30 | 06:20 | 0 min | 06:19 | 766 min | 11 Oct |
| Suva | 05:24 → 02:30 | 05:41 | 0 min | 05:41 | 745 min | 11 Oct |