Wednesday 16 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 17:08 on Wed 16 Sep to 18:11 on Thu 17 Sep.

   1908-09-16T22:07:35Z → 1908-09-17T23:10:30Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:03–19:36 on the 16th, 18:01–19:34 on the 17th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 93 of 93 minutes on the 16th and 9 of 93 on the 17th.

   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 558 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Queens, 1908: Wednesday 16 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Queens, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1908 falls on Wednesday 16 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:08 on Wed 16 Sep to 18:11 on Thu 17 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 9 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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