Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1952

Thursday 11 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 124 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 10 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:35 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:06
18:1118:3518:5919:2319:4720:1120:35

0 of 91 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 11 September

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

18:33 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:04
18:0918:3318:5719:2119:4520:0920:33

91 of 91 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 22:10 on Wed 10 Sep to 23:13 on Thu 11 Sep.

    1952-09-10T14:09:50Z → 1952-09-11T15:13:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:35–20:06 on the 10th, 18:33–20:04 on the 11th.

    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 91 minutes on the 10th and 91 of 91 on the 11th.

    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 7448 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1952: Thursday 11 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1952 falls on Thursday 11 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 22:10 on Wed 10 Sep to 23:13 on Thu 11 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1952/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 11 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 11 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 11 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 10thCoveredSunset 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:10 → 08:1319:0692 min19:050 min10 Sep
Chicago09:10 → 10:1319:0890 min19:070 min10 Sep
Jersey City10:10 → 11:1319:1391 min19:120 min10 Sep
Port of Spain10:10 → 11:1318:1094 min18:090 min10 Sep
London15:10 → 16:1319:2688 min19:240 min10 Sep
Durban16:10 → 17:1317:4598 min17:460 min10 Sep
Dubai18:10 → 19:1318:2893 min18:2746 min10 Sep
Delhi19:40 → 20:4318:3225 min18:3192 min11 Sep
Kolkata19:40 → 20:4317:450 min17:4493 min11 Sep
Singapore21:40 → 22:4318:350 min18:3595 min11 Sep
Sydney00:10 → 01:1317:430 min17:4398 min11 Sep
Suva02:10 → 03:1318:000 min18:0097 min11 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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