Tuesday 5 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 16:58 on Tue 5 Oct to 19:24 on Wed 6 Oct.

   2004-10-05T20:57:49Z → 2004-10-06T23:23:50Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:30–20:10 on the 5th, 18:28–20:08 on the 6th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 100 of 100 minutes on the 5th and 56 of 100 on the 6th.

   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 2672 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Queens, 2004: Tuesday 5 October.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Queens, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2004 falls on Tuesday 5 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 16:58 on Tue 5 Oct to 19:24 on Wed 6 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 56 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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