Day of Thursday 8 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
05:55 sunrisesunset 17:35
Śravaṇa begins 07:53:45
05:3107:3109:3111:3113:3115:3117:3119:31
581 of 700 minutes covered, the last 581
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1981
Boundaryin Shaoxing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Thursday 8 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
581 of 700 minutes covered, the last 581
Day of Friday 9 October
Qualifies with 23 of 698 minutes. Not taken.
23 of 698 minutes covered, the first 23
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 05:52 on Thu 8 Oct to 06:19 on Fri 9 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 07:54 on Thu 8 Oct to 08:53 on Fri 9 Oct. They are together from 07:54 on Thu 8 Oct to 06:19 on Fri 9 Oct.
1981-10-07T23:53:45Z → 1981-10-08T22:18:34Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 05:55–17:35 on the 8th, 05:56–17:34 on the 9th.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 581 of 700 minutes on the 8th and 23 of 698 on the 9th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Both days qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 1374 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Shaoxing, 1981: Thursday 8 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Shaoxing, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1981 falls on Thursday 8 October. Daśamī runs from 05:52 on Thu 8 Oct to 06:19 on Fri 9 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 581 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 23 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the day they share longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Thu 8 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Thu 8 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Thu 8 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Shaoxing. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“S 10 Vijaya dasami (In Bengal it is observed as paraviddha, covering one muhurta from sunrise. In other places, if it touches Sravana naksatra in the day time it is observed on that day), Sarasvati visarjana (to be observed in naksatra Sravana), Dasahara.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104. The Bengal reading (paraviddha, one muhūrta from sunrise) is not applied.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 7th | Covered | Sunrise 8th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 16:54 → 15:19 | 06:52 | 95 min | 06:53 | 506 min | 8 Oct |
| Chicago | 18:54 → 17:19 | 06:54 | 0 min | 06:55 | 623 min | 8 Oct |
| Jersey City | 19:54 → 18:19 | 06:59 | 0 min | 07:00 | 678 min | 8 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 19:54 → 18:19 | 05:55 | 0 min | 05:55 | 717 min | 8 Oct |
| London | 00:54 → 23:19 | 07:11 | 0 min | 07:13 | 670 min | 8 Oct |
| Durban | 01:54 → 00:19 | 05:28 | 0 min | 05:26 | 754 min | 8 Oct |
| Dubai | 03:54 → 02:19 | 06:13 | 0 min | 06:14 | 705 min | 8 Oct |
| Delhi | 05:24 → 03:49 | 06:17 | 0 min | 06:18 | 701 min | 8 Oct |
| Kolkata | 05:24 → 03:49 | 05:30 | 0 min | 05:30 | 707 min | 8 Oct |
| Singapore | 07:24 → 05:49 | 06:20 | 0 min | 06:20 | 661 min | 8 Oct |
| Sydney | 09:54 → 08:19 | 05:25 | 0 min | 05:24 | 489 min | 8 Oct |
| Suva | 11:54 → 10:19 | 05:44 | 0 min | 05:43 | 371 min | 8 Oct |