Saturday 27 March

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pūrṇimā runs from 16:59 on Thu 25 Mar to 18:12 on Fri 26 Mar.

   1937-03-25T21:59:18Z → 1937-03-26T23:12:11Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 15:44–18:12 on the 25th, 15:45–18:13 on the 26th.

   sayahna: day-muhurta-13-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 73 of 148 minutes on the 25th and 148 of 149 on the 26th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both late afternoons qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 61 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Counted

   Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Friday 26 March is the day taken above.

   follows: holika-dahana + 1 d

6. 06

   Ruling

   Holī, Queens, 1937: Saturday 27 March.

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

Say it like this

In Queens, Holī 1937 falls on Saturday 27 March. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Friday 26 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 16:59 on Thu 25 Mar to 18:12 on Fri 26 Mar and covers 148 of 149 minutes of sāyāhna on the 26th. It also reaches the previous late afternoon for 73 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 01 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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