Ruling · Kārtikī Pūrṇimā · 1999

Tuesday 23 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 155 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 Monday 22 November

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:40  12:28 madhyāhna ends
10:5211:1611:4012:0412:2812:5213:16

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 23 November

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:40  12:28 madhyāhna ends
10:5211:1611:4012:0412:2812:5213:16

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 18:47 on Mon 22 Nov to 15:04 on Tue 23 Nov.

    1999-11-22T10:47:28Z → 1999-11-23T07:03:39Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:40–12:28 on the 22nd, 11:40–12:28 on the 23rd.

    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 22nd and 48 of 48 on the 23rd.

    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 9328 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Kārtikī Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1999: Tuesday 23 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Kārtikī Pūrṇimā 1999 falls on Tuesday 23 November. Pūrṇimā runs from 18:47 on Mon 22 Nov to 15:04 on Tue 23 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1999/kartiki-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 23 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 23 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 23 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 22ndCoveredMadhyāhna 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:47 → 23:0411:1548 min11:150 min22 Nov
Chicago04:47 → 01:0411:1348 min11:130 min22 Nov
Jersey City05:47 → 02:0411:1848 min11:180 min22 Nov
Port of Spain06:47 → 03:0411:2848 min11:280 min22 Nov
London10:47 → 07:0411:2248 min11:230 min22 Nov
Durban12:47 → 09:0411:180 min11:180 min23 Nov
Dubai14:47 → 11:0411:410 min11:410 min23 Nov
Delhi16:17 → 12:3411:430 min11:4348 min23 Nov
Kolkata16:17 → 12:3410:580 min10:5948 min23 Nov
Singapore18:47 → 15:0412:270 min12:2748 min23 Nov
Sydney21:47 → 18:0412:170 min12:1848 min23 Nov
Suva23:47 → 20:0412:280 min12:2948 min23 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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