Day of Monday 10 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
05:46 sunrisesunset 18:04
Daśamī begins 12:23:44
05:2207:2209:2211:2213:2215:2217:2219:22
340 of 738 minutes covered, the last 340
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 2016
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 Monday 10 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
340 of 738 minutes covered, the last 340
Day of Tuesday 11 October
Qualifies with 224 of 739 minutes. Not taken.
224 of 739 minutes covered, the first 224
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 12:24 on Mon 10 Oct to 11:58 on Tue 11 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 09:10 on Mon 10 Oct to 09:30 on Tue 11 Oct. They are together from 12:24 on Mon 10 Oct to 09:30 on Tue 11 Oct.
2016-10-10T17:23:44Z → 2016-10-11T14:29:46Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:46–18:04 on the 10th, 05:45–18:04 on the 11th.
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 340 of 738 minutes on the 10th and 224 of 739 on the 11th.
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 13469 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Lima, 2016: Monday 10 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Lima, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2016 falls on Monday 10 October. Daśamī runs from 12:24 on Mon 10 Oct to 11:58 on Tue 11 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 340 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 224 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 | Mon 10 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Mon 10 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Mon 10 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 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 |