Ruling · Kārtikī Pūrṇimā · 1903

Thursday 5 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 62 minutes.

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Wednesday 4 November

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 5 November

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

48 of 48 minutes covered

Pūrṇimā presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 14:09 on Wed 4 Nov to 13:27 on Thu 5 Nov.

    1903-11-04T06:08:57Z → 1903-11-05T05:27:24Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 4th, 11:38–12:26 on the 5th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 4th and 48 of 48 on the 5th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 3710 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Kārtikī Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1903: Thursday 5 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Kārtikī Pūrṇimā 1903 falls on Thursday 5 November. Pūrṇimā runs from 14:09 on Wed 4 Nov to 13:27 on Thu 5 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1903/kartiki-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 5 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 5 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 5 Nov
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/kartiki-purnima · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 15 Rasayatra, (nisithavyapini, i.e. covering a period from 24 minutes before to 24 minutes after midnight. If occurs on two days or does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the second day), Puskar Fair. Ratha yatra (Jain), Tripurotsava (evening), Kedara vrata (Orissa), Kartiki purnima.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāMadhyāhna 4thCoveredMadhyāhna 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:09 → 21:2711:1248 min11:120 min4 Nov
Chicago00:09 → 23:2711:1048 min11:100 min4 Nov
Jersey City01:09 → 00:2711:1648 min11:160 min4 Nov
Port of Spain02:09 → 01:2711:2648 min11:260 min4 Nov
London06:09 → 05:2711:2048 min11:200 min4 Nov
Durban08:09 → 07:2711:1648 min11:160 min4 Nov
Dubai09:50 → 09:0811:1948 min11:190 min4 Nov
Delhi11:30 → 10:4811:3248 min11:320 min4 Nov
Kolkata11:30 → 10:4810:475 min10:471 min4 Nov
Singapore13:04 → 12:2211:190 min11:1948 min5 Nov
Sydney16:09 → 15:2711:150 min11:1548 min5 Nov
Suva18:04 → 17:2211:210 min11:2148 min5 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
kartiki-purnima@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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