Thursday 3 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 16:06 on Thu 3 Oct to 18:09 on Fri 4 Oct.

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

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:09–19:47 on the 3rd, 18:08–19:46 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 98 of 98 minutes on the 3rd and 1 of 98 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 68 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Phoenix, 1996: Thursday 3 October.

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

Say it like this

In Phoenix, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1996 falls on Thursday 3 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 16:06 on Thu 3 Oct to 18:09 on Fri 4 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 1 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 1 min 08 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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