Ruling · Kārtikī Pūrṇimā · 1960

Thursday 3 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 449 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 Wednesday 2 November

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 3 November

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

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 19:54 on Wed 2 Nov to 19:58 on Thu 3 Nov.

    1960-11-02T11:54:09Z → 1960-11-03T11:57:33Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 2nd, 11:38–12:26 on the 3rd.

    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 2nd and 48 of 48 on the 3rd.

    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 26919 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Kārtikī Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1960: Thursday 3 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Kārtikī Pūrṇimā 1960 falls on Thursday 3 November. Pūrṇimā runs from 19:54 on Wed 2 Nov to 19:58 on Thu 3 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1960/kartiki-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 3 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 3 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 3 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 2ndCoveredMadhyāhna 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:54 → 03:5811:1248 min11:120 min2 Nov
Chicago05:54 → 05:5811:1048 min11:100 min2 Nov
Jersey City06:54 → 06:5811:1648 min11:160 min2 Nov
Port of Spain07:54 → 07:5811:2648 min11:260 min2 Nov
London11:54 → 11:5811:2014 min11:2038 min3 Nov
Durban13:54 → 13:5811:160 min11:1648 min3 Nov
Dubai15:54 → 15:5811:380 min11:3848 min3 Nov
Delhi17:24 → 17:2811:410 min11:4148 min3 Nov
Kolkata17:24 → 17:2810:560 min10:5648 min3 Nov
Singapore19:24 → 19:2811:540 min11:5448 min3 Nov
Sydney21:54 → 21:5811:150 min11:1548 min3 Nov
Suva23:54 → 23:5811:260 min11:2648 min3 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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