Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1929

Thursday 26 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 76 minutes.

Decide it for

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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 Wednesday 25 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:12 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:47
17:4818:1218:3619:0019:2419:4820:12

0 of 96 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 26 September

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

18:10 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:46
17:4618:1018:3418:5819:2219:4620:10

96 of 96 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 23:09 on Wed 25 Sep to 21:02 on Thu 26 Sep.

    1929-09-25T15:09:18Z → 1929-09-26T13:01:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:12–19:47 on the 25th, 18:10–19:46 on the 26th.

    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 96 minutes on the 25th and 96 of 96 on the 26th.

    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 4534 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1929: Thursday 26 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1929 falls on Thursday 26 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 23:09 on Wed 25 Sep to 21:02 on Thu 26 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1929/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 26 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 26 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 26 Sep
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 25thCoveredSunset 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:09 → 05:0217:4696 min17:440 min25 Sep
Chicago10:09 → 08:0218:4396 min18:410 min25 Sep
Jersey City11:09 → 09:0218:4996 min18:470 min25 Sep
Port of Spain11:09 → 09:0218:0095 min18:000 min25 Sep
London16:09 → 14:0218:5396 min18:510 min25 Sep
Durban17:09 → 15:0217:5394 min17:540 min25 Sep
Dubai19:09 → 17:0218:1239 min18:110 min25 Sep
Delhi20:39 → 18:3218:150 min18:1418 min26 Sep
Kolkata20:39 → 18:3217:300 min17:2962 min26 Sep
Singapore22:09 → 20:0217:590 min17:5995 min26 Sep
Sydney01:09 → 23:0217:530 min17:5394 min26 Sep
Suva03:09 → 01:0218:020 min18:0395 min26 Sep
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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