Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1920

Tuesday 5 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 13 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Monday 4 October

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:57 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:36
17:3317:5718:2118:4519:0919:3319:57

0 of 99 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 5 October

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

17:56 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:35
Aṣṭamī ends 19:47:33
17:3217:5618:2018:4419:0819:3219:56

99 of 99 minutes covered

Aṣṭamī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 21:59 on Mon 4 Oct to 19:48 on Tue 5 Oct.

    1920-10-04T13:59:14Z → 1920-10-05T11:47:33Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:57–19:36 on the 4th, 17:56–19:35 on the 5th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 99 minutes on the 4th and 99 of 99 on the 5th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 780 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1920: Tuesday 5 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1920 falls on Tuesday 5 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 21:59 on Mon 4 Oct to 19:48 on Tue 5 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1920/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 5 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 5 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 5 Oct
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/jitashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 8 Mahalaksmi vrata samapana (current at moonrise), Jitastami (pradosa), Jimutavahana puja” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīSunset 4thCoveredSunset 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:59 → 03:4817:3398 min17:320 min4 Oct
Chicago08:59 → 06:4818:2799 min18:260 min4 Oct
Jersey City09:59 → 07:4818:3499 min18:320 min4 Oct
Port of Spain09:59 → 07:4817:5596 min17:540 min4 Oct
London14:59 → 12:4818:32101 min18:300 min4 Oct
Durban15:59 → 13:4817:5892 min17:590 min4 Oct
Dubai17:59 → 15:4818:0397 min18:020 min4 Oct
Delhi19:29 → 17:1818:0412 min18:030 min4 Oct
Kolkata19:29 → 17:1817:210 min17:210 min4 Oct
Singapore20:59 → 18:4817:560 min17:5652 min5 Oct
Sydney23:59 → 21:4817:590 min18:0092 min5 Oct
Suva01:59 → 23:4818:040 min18:0493 min5 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
jitashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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