Thursday 24 March

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pūrṇimā runs from 17:43 on Tue 22 Mar to 20:01 on Wed 23 Mar.

   2016-03-22T09:42:50Z → 2016-03-23T12:00:50Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 16:55–19:21 on the 22nd, 16:55–19:21 on the 23rd.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 98 of 146 minutes on the 22nd and 146 of 146 on the 23rd.

   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 2364 s

5. 05

   Counted

   Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Wednesday 23 March is the day taken above.

   follows: holika-dahana + 1 d

6. 06

   Ruling

   Holī, Kunming, 2016: Thursday 24 March.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Kunming, Holī 2016 falls on Thursday 24 March. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Wednesday 23 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 17:43 on Tue 22 Mar to 20:01 on Wed 23 Mar and covers all of sāyāhna on the 23rd. It also reaches the previous late afternoon for 98 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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