Tuesday 2 March

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pūrṇimā runs from 13:20 on Mon 1 Mar to 15:37 on Tue 2 Mar.

   2094-03-01T05:19:44Z → 2094-03-02T07:36:36Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 15:35–17:53 on the 1st, 15:35–17:54 on the 2nd.

   sayahna: day-muhurta-13-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 138 of 138 minutes on the 1st and 1 of 139 on the 2nd.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both late afternoons qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 73 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Counted

   Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Monday 1 March is the day taken above.

   follows: holika-dahana + 1 d

6. 06

   Ruling

   Holī, Jiading, 2094: Tuesday 2 March.

   confidence: boundary (margin, tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Jiading, Holī 2094 falls on Tuesday 2 March. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Monday 1 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 13:20 on Mon 1 Mar to 15:37 on Tue 2 Mar and covers all of sāyāhna on the 1st. It also reaches the next late afternoon for 1 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 1 min 13 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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