Tuesday 27 February

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pūrṇimā runs from 18:20 on Sun 25 Feb to 20:07 on Mon 26 Feb.

   1945-02-25T22:20:00Z → 1945-02-27T00:06:44Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 16:28–18:42 on the 25th, 16:29–18:43 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 22 of 133 minutes on the 25th and 134 of 134 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 1293 s

5. 05

   Counted

   Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Monday 26 February is the day taken above.

   follows: holika-dahana + 1 d

6. 06

   Ruling

   Holī, Queens, 1945: Tuesday 27 February.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Queens, Holī 1945 falls on Tuesday 27 February. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Monday 26 February. Pūrṇimā runs from 18:20 on Sun 25 Feb to 20:07 on Mon 26 Feb and covers all of sāyāhna on the 26th. It also reaches the previous late afternoon for 22 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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