Friday 4 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 18:06 on Thu 3 Oct to 20:09 on Fri 4 Oct.

   1996-10-03T23:05:48Z → 1996-10-05T01:08:59Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:04–19:38 on the 3rd, 18:04–19:38 on the 4th.

   pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 92 of 94 minutes on the 3rd and 94 of 94 on the 4th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

4. 04

   Tie-break

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

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 120 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Lima, 1996: Friday 4 October.

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

Say it like this

In Lima, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1996 falls on Friday 4 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:06 on Thu 3 Oct to 20:09 on Fri 4 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 92 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 2 min 00 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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