Saturday 29 March

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pūrṇimā runs from 13:46 on Fri 28 Mar to 15:48 on Sat 29 Mar.

   2059-03-28T01:46:03Z → 2059-03-29T03:48:11Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 15:47–18:11 on the 28th, 15:46–18:10 on the 29th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 144 of 144 minutes on the 28th and 2 of 144 on the 29th.

   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 102 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Counted

   Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Friday 28 March is the day taken above.

   follows: holika-dahana + 1 d

6. 06

   Ruling

   Holī, Suva, 2059: Saturday 29 March.

   confidence: boundary (margin, tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Suva, Holī 2059 falls on Saturday 29 March. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Friday 28 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 13:46 on Fri 28 Mar to 15:48 on Sat 29 Mar and covers all of sāyāhna on the 28th. It also reaches the next late afternoon for 2 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.

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