Monday 22 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 18:34 on Mon 22 Sep to 18:48 on Tue 23 Sep.

   1997-09-23T01:34:25Z → 1997-09-24T01:47:38Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:24–20:00 on the 22nd, 18:23–19:58 on the 23rd.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 85 of 95 minutes on the 22nd and 25 of 95 on the 23rd.

   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 599 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Phoenix, 1997: Monday 22 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Phoenix, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1997 falls on Monday 22 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:34 on Mon 22 Sep to 18:48 on Tue 23 Sep and covers 85 of 95 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 25 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

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