Ruling · Kārtikī Pūrṇimā · 2008

Thursday 13 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 111 minutes.

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Wednesday 12 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 13 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 17:42 on Wed 12 Nov to 14:17 on Thu 13 Nov.

    2008-11-12T09:41:38Z → 2008-11-13T06:17:20Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 12th, 11:38–12:26 on the 13th.

    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 12th and 48 of 48 on the 13th.

    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 6665 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Kārtikī Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 2008: Thursday 13 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Kārtikī Pūrṇimā 2008 falls on Thursday 13 November. Pūrṇimā runs from 17:42 on Wed 12 Nov to 14:17 on Thu 13 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2008/kartiki-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 13 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 13 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 13 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 12thCoveredMadhyāhna 13thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:42 → 22:1711:1348 min11:130 min12 Nov
Chicago03:42 → 00:1711:1148 min11:110 min12 Nov
Jersey City04:42 → 01:1711:1648 min11:160 min12 Nov
Port of Spain05:42 → 02:1711:2648 min11:260 min12 Nov
London09:42 → 06:1711:2048 min11:210 min12 Nov
Durban11:42 → 08:1711:1623 min11:160 min12 Nov
Dubai13:42 → 10:1711:390 min11:390 min13 Nov
Delhi15:12 → 11:4711:410 min11:416 min13 Nov
Kolkata15:12 → 11:4710:570 min10:5748 min13 Nov
Singapore17:42 → 14:1712:250 min12:2548 min13 Nov
Sydney20:42 → 17:1712:160 min12:1648 min13 Nov
Suva21:42 → 18:1711:270 min11:2748 min13 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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