Monday 8 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 19:36 on Sun 7 Oct to 21:22 on Mon 8 Oct.

   2012-10-07T18:35:32Z → 2012-10-08T20:21:30Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:02–19:36 on the 7th, 18:01–19:36 on the 8th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 94 minutes on the 7th and 94 of 94 on the 8th.

   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 8 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Luanda, 2012: Monday 8 October.

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

Say it like this

In Luanda, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2012 falls on Monday 8 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 19:36 on Sun 7 Oct to 21:22 on Mon 8 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 0 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 0 min 08 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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