Friday 10 March

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pūrṇimā runs from 17:56 on Wed 8 Mar to 20:28 on Thu 9 Mar.

   1944-03-08T21:56:29Z → 1944-03-10T00:27:37Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 16:35–18:54 on the 8th, 16:36–18:55 on the 9th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 58 of 139 minutes on the 8th and 140 of 140 on the 9th.

   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 3465 s

5. 05

   Counted

   Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Thursday 9 March is the day taken above.

   follows: holika-dahana + 1 d

6. 06

   Ruling

   Holī, Queens, 1944: Friday 10 March.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Queens, Holī 1944 falls on Friday 10 March. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Thursday 9 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 17:56 on Wed 8 Mar to 20:28 on Thu 9 Mar and covers all of sāyāhna on the 9th. It also reaches the previous late afternoon for 58 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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