Ruling · Kārtikī Pūrṇimā · 1920

Friday 26 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 11 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

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

Midday of Thursday 25 November

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:41  12:29 madhyāhna ends
Pūrṇimā begins 12:39:50
10:5311:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:17

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 26 November

Taken. Pūrṇimā reaches neither midday; the rule takes the second day.

madhyāhna begins 11:41  12:29 madhyāhna ends
10:5311:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:17

0 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 12:40 on Thu 25 Nov to 09:42 on Fri 26 Nov.

    1920-11-25T04:39:51Z → 1920-11-26T01:42:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:41–12:29 on the 25th, 11:41–12:29 on the 26th.

    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 25th and 0 of 48 on the 26th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Neither midday qualifies. The rule takes the second day.

    priority: unstated → second-day · margin 654 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Kārtikī Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1920: Friday 26 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Kārtikī Pūrṇimā 1920 falls on Friday 26 November. Pūrṇimā runs from 12:40 on Thu 25 Nov to 09:42 on Fri 26 Nov, and reaches madhyāhna on neither day.

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

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 26 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 26 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 25 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 25thCoveredMadhyāhna 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:40 → 17:4211:1648 min11:160 min25 Nov
Chicago22:40 → 19:4211:1448 min11:140 min25 Nov
Jersey City23:40 → 20:4211:1948 min11:200 min25 Nov
Port of Spain00:40 → 21:4211:2948 min11:290 min25 Nov
London04:40 → 01:4211:2348 min11:240 min25 Nov
Durban06:40 → 03:4211:1948 min11:190 min25 Nov
Dubai08:40 → 05:4211:4248 min11:420 min25 Nov
Delhi10:10 → 07:1211:4448 min11:440 min25 Nov
Kolkata10:10 → 07:1210:5948 min11:000 min25 Nov
Singapore11:40 → 08:4211:2836 min11:280 min25 Nov
Sydney14:40 → 11:4211:180 min11:1923 min26 Nov
Suva16:40 → 13:4211:290 min11:3048 min26 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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