Midday of Friday 28 September
Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.
madhyāhna begins 11:41 12:29 madhyāhna ends
10:5311:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:17
0 of 48 minutes covered
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1990
Boundaryin Multan, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 0 min 46 s away. Say “contested”.
One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.
Midday of Friday 28 September
Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.
0 of 48 minutes covered
Midday of Saturday 29 September
Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.
48 of 48 minutes covered
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 21:56 on Fri 28 Sep to 23:01 on Sat 29 Sep.
1990-09-28T16:55:35Z → 1990-09-29T18:00:50Z
Kāla
Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:41–12:29 on the 28th, 11:40–12:28 on the 29th.
madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 28th and 48 of 48 on the 29th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.
priority: unstated → only-day · margin 46 s < 300 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Multan, 1990: Saturday 29 September.
confidence: boundary (margin)
In Multan, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1990 falls on Saturday 29 September. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 21:56 on Fri 28 Sep to 23:01 on Sat 29 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday. It is 0 min 46 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Sat 29 Sep |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Sat 29 Sep |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Sat 29 Sep |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Multan. | ||
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 | Madhyāhna 28th | Covered | Madhyāhna 29th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 09:56 → 11:01 | 12:19 | 48 min | 12:19 | 0 min | 29 Sep |
| Chicago | 11:56 → 13:01 | 12:17 | 48 min | 12:17 | 44 min | 29 Sep |
| Jersey City | 12:56 → 14:01 | 12:23 | 15 min | 12:22 | 48 min | 29 Sep |
| Port of Spain | 12:56 → 14:01 | 11:33 | 0 min | 11:32 | 48 min | 29 Sep |
| London | 17:56 → 19:01 | 12:27 | 0 min | 12:26 | 48 min | 29 Sep |
| Durban | 18:56 → 20:01 | 11:23 | 0 min | 11:23 | 48 min | 29 Sep |
| Dubai | 20:56 → 22:01 | 11:45 | 0 min | 11:45 | 48 min | 29 Sep |
| Delhi | 22:26 → 23:31 | 11:48 | 0 min | 11:47 | 48 min | 29 Sep |
| Kolkata | 22:26 → 23:31 | 11:03 | 0 min | 11:03 | 48 min | 29 Sep |
| Singapore | 00:56 → 02:01 | 12:31 | 0 min | 12:31 | 48 min | 29 Sep |
| Sydney | 02:56 → 04:01 | 11:22 | 0 min | 11:22 | 48 min | 29 Sep |
| Suva | 04:56 → 06:01 | 11:33 | 0 min | 11:33 | 48 min | 30 Sep |