Evening of Tuesday 7 October
Taken. Both evenings qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
18:28 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:08
18:0418:2818:5219:1619:4020:0420:28
100 of 100 minutes covered
Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 2031
Boundaryin Queens, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both evenings qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.
Evening of Tuesday 7 October
Taken. Both evenings qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
100 of 100 minutes covered
Evening of Wednesday 8 October
Qualifies with 99 of 101 minutes. Not taken.
99 of 101 minutes covered, the first 99
Aṅga
Aṣṭamī runs from 17:37 on Tue 7 Oct to 20:05 on Wed 8 Oct.
2031-10-07T21:37:29Z → 2031-10-09T00:04:49Z
Kāla
Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:28–20:08 on the 7th, 18:26–20:07 on the 8th.
pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 100 of 100 minutes on the 7th and 99 of 101 on the 8th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103
Tie-break
Both evenings qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 102 s < 300 s
Ruling
Jitāṣṭamī, Queens, 2031: Tuesday 7 October.
confidence: boundary (margin, tie-break-unstated)
In Queens, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2031 falls on Tuesday 7 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:37 on Tue 7 Oct to 20:05 on Wed 8 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 99 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 42 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Tue 7 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Wed 8 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Tue 7 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Queens. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/jitashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“K 8 Mahalaksmi vrata samapana (current at moonrise), Jitastami (pradosa), Jimutavahana puja” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Aṣṭamī | Sunset 7th | Covered | Sunset 9th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 14:37 → 17:05 | 18:29 | 99 min | 18:26 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Chicago | 16:37 → 19:05 | 18:22 | 100 min | 18:19 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Jersey City | 17:37 → 20:05 | 18:28 | 100 min | 18:25 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 17:37 → 20:05 | 17:53 | 96 min | 17:52 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| London | 22:37 → 01:05 | 18:25 | 0 min | 18:21 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Durban | 23:37 → 02:05 | 18:00 | 0 min | 18:01 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Dubai | 01:37 → 04:05 | 18:00 | 0 min | 17:58 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Delhi | 03:07 → 05:35 | 18:00 | 0 min | 17:58 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Kolkata | 03:07 → 05:35 | 17:19 | 0 min | 17:17 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Singapore | 05:37 → 08:05 | 18:55 | 0 min | 18:54 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Sydney | 08:37 → 11:05 | 19:02 | 0 min | 19:03 | 0 min | 8 Oct |
| Suva | 09:37 → 12:05 | 18:05 | 0 min | 18:05 | 0 min | 8 Oct |