Ruling · Kārtikī Pūrṇimā · 2018

Friday 23 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 71 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 Thursday 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 Friday 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 15:24 on Thu 22 Nov to 13:39 on Fri 23 Nov.

    2018-11-22T07:23:51Z → 2018-11-23T05:39:12Z

  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 4255 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Kārtikī Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 2018: Friday 23 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Kārtikī Pūrṇimā 2018 falls on Friday 23 November. Pūrṇimā runs from 15:24 on Thu 22 Nov to 13:39 on Fri 23 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2018/kartiki-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 23 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 23 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 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 Angeles23:24 → 21:3911:1548 min11:150 min22 Nov
Chicago01:24 → 23:3911:1348 min11:130 min22 Nov
Jersey City02:24 → 00:3911:1848 min11:190 min22 Nov
Port of Spain03:24 → 01:3911:2848 min11:280 min22 Nov
London07:24 → 05:3911:2248 min11:230 min22 Nov
Durban09:24 → 07:3911:1848 min11:180 min22 Nov
Dubai11:24 → 09:3911:4148 min11:410 min22 Nov
Delhi12:54 → 11:0911:430 min11:430 min23 Nov
Kolkata12:54 → 11:0910:580 min10:5910 min23 Nov
Singapore15:24 → 13:3912:270 min12:2748 min23 Nov
Sydney18:24 → 16:3912:170 min12:1848 min23 Nov
Suva20:24 → 18:3912:280 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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