Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1958

Monday 6 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 89 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 Sunday 5 October

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

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

0 of 99 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 6 October

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

17:54 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:34
17:3017:5418:1818:4219:0619:3019:54

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 21:03 on Sun 5 Oct to 21:25 on Mon 6 Oct.

    1958-10-05T13:03:27Z → 1958-10-06T13:25:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:56–19:35 on the 5th, 17:54–19:34 on the 6th.

    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 5th and 99 of 99 on the 6th.

    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 5318 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1958: Monday 6 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1958 falls on Monday 6 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 21:03 on Sun 5 Oct to 21:25 on Mon 6 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1958/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 6 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 6 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 6 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 5thCoveredSunset 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:03 → 05:2517:3299 min17:310 min5 Oct
Chicago08:03 → 08:2518:26100 min18:240 min5 Oct
Jersey City09:03 → 09:2518:3299 min18:310 min5 Oct
Port of Spain09:03 → 09:2517:5496 min17:530 min5 Oct
London13:03 → 13:2517:30101 min17:280 min5 Oct
Durban15:03 → 15:2517:5992 min17:590 min5 Oct
Dubai17:03 → 17:2518:0297 min18:010 min5 Oct
Delhi18:33 → 18:5518:0367 min18:0253 min5 Oct
Kolkata18:33 → 18:5517:2124 min17:2095 min6 Oct
Singapore20:33 → 20:5518:260 min18:2695 min6 Oct
Sydney23:03 → 23:2518:000 min18:0191 min6 Oct
Suva01:03 → 01:2518:040 min18:0493 min6 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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