Wednesday 14 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 17:59 on Wed 14 Sep to 18:48 on Thu 15 Sep.

   1949-09-15T01:58:32Z → 1949-09-16T02:47:45Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:55–19:28 on the 14th, 17:54–19:27 on the 15th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 90 of 93 minutes on the 14th and 54 of 93 on the 15th.

   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 192 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Tijuana, 1949: Wednesday 14 September.

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

Say it like this

In Tijuana, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1949 falls on Wednesday 14 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:59 on Wed 14 Sep to 18:48 on Thu 15 Sep and covers 90 of 93 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 54 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 3 min 12 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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