Ruling · Kārtikī Pūrṇimā · 1956

Sunday 18 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 137 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 Saturday 17 November

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 18 November

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

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 16:15 on Sat 17 Nov to 14:45 on Sun 18 Nov.

    1956-11-17T08:15:03Z → 1956-11-18T06:44:35Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:39–12:27 on the 17th, 11:39–12:27 on the 18th.

    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 17th and 48 of 48 on the 18th.

    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 8246 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Kārtikī Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1956: Sunday 18 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Kārtikī Pūrṇimā 1956 falls on Sunday 18 November. Pūrṇimā runs from 16:15 on Sat 17 Nov to 14:45 on Sun 18 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1956/kartiki-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 18 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 18 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 18 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 17thCoveredMadhyāhna 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:15 → 22:4511:1448 min11:140 min17 Nov
Chicago02:15 → 00:4511:1148 min11:120 min17 Nov
Jersey City03:15 → 01:4511:1748 min11:170 min17 Nov
Port of Spain04:15 → 02:4511:2748 min11:270 min17 Nov
London08:15 → 06:4511:2148 min11:210 min17 Nov
Durban10:15 → 08:4511:1748 min11:170 min17 Nov
Dubai12:15 → 10:4511:4013 min11:400 min17 Nov
Delhi13:45 → 12:1511:420 min11:4232 min18 Nov
Kolkata13:45 → 12:1510:570 min10:5848 min18 Nov
Singapore15:45 → 14:1511:560 min11:5648 min18 Nov
Sydney18:15 → 16:4511:160 min11:1748 min18 Nov
Suva20:15 → 18:4511:270 min11:2848 min18 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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