Day of Wednesday 5 October
Qualifies with 8 of 734 minutes. Not taken.
05:49 sunrisesunset 18:04
Śravaṇa begins 17:55:38
05:2507:2509:2511:2513:2515:2517:2519:25
8 of 734 minutes covered, the last 8
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 2011
Boundaryin Lima, 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 Wednesday 5 October
Qualifies with 8 of 734 minutes. Not taken.
8 of 734 minutes covered, the last 8
Day of Thursday 6 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
325 of 735 minutes covered, the first 325
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 10:23 on Wed 5 Oct to 11:14 on Thu 6 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 17:56 on Wed 5 Oct to 19:32 on Thu 6 Oct. They are together from 17:56 on Wed 5 Oct to 11:14 on Thu 6 Oct.
2011-10-05T22:55:39Z → 2011-10-06T16:13:52Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:49–18:04 on the 5th, 05:49–18:04 on the 6th.
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 8 of 734 minutes on the 5th and 325 of 735 on the 6th.
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 494 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Lima, 2011: Thursday 6 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Lima, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2011 falls on Thursday 6 October. Daśamī runs from 10:23 on Wed 5 Oct to 11:14 on Thu 6 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 325 minutes. They are together in the day time on the previous day too, for 8 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 6 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Thu 6 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Thu 6 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Lima. | ||
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 5th | Covered | Sunrise 6th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 15:56 → 09:14 | 06:51 | 156 min | 06:51 | 143 min | 5 Oct |
| Chicago | 17:56 → 11:14 | 06:52 | 30 min | 06:53 | 261 min | 6 Oct |
| Jersey City | 18:56 → 12:14 | 06:57 | 0 min | 06:58 | 316 min | 6 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 18:56 → 12:14 | 05:55 | 0 min | 05:55 | 379 min | 6 Oct |
| London | 23:56 → 17:14 | 07:07 | 0 min | 07:09 | 605 min | 6 Oct |
| Durban | 00:56 → 18:14 | 05:30 | 0 min | 05:29 | 750 min | 6 Oct |
| Dubai | 02:56 → 20:14 | 06:12 | 0 min | 06:13 | 708 min | 6 Oct |
| Delhi | 04:26 → 21:44 | 06:16 | 0 min | 06:17 | 705 min | 6 Oct |
| Kolkata | 04:26 → 21:44 | 05:29 | 0 min | 05:30 | 710 min | 6 Oct |
| Singapore | 06:56 → 00:14 | 06:51 | 0 min | 06:50 | 720 min | 6 Oct |
| Sydney | 09:56 → 03:14 | 06:28 | 0 min | 06:27 | 545 min | 6 Oct |
| Suva | 10:56 → 04:14 | 05:46 | 0 min | 05:45 | 429 min | 6 Oct |