Ruling · Kārtikī Pūrṇimā · 2020

Monday 30 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 168 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 Sunday 29 November

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:42  12:30 madhyāhna ends
10:5411:1811:4212:0612:3012:5413:18

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 30 November

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:43  12:31 madhyāhna ends
10:5511:1911:4312:0712:3112:5513:19

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 15:18 on Sun 29 Nov to 17:30 on Mon 30 Nov.

    2020-11-29T07:18:05Z → 2020-11-30T09:29:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:42–12:30 on the 29th, 11:43–12:31 on the 30th.

    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 29th and 48 of 48 on the 30th.

    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 10064 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Kārtikī Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 2020: Monday 30 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Kārtikī Pūrṇimā 2020 falls on Monday 30 November. Pūrṇimā runs from 15:18 on Sun 29 Nov to 17:30 on Mon 30 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2020/kartiki-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 30 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 30 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 30 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 29thCoveredMadhyāhna 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:18 → 01:3011:1748 min11:180 min29 Nov
Chicago01:18 → 03:3011:1548 min11:150 min29 Nov
Jersey City02:18 → 04:3011:2148 min11:210 min29 Nov
Port of Spain03:18 → 05:3011:3148 min11:310 min29 Nov
London07:18 → 09:3011:2548 min11:250 min29 Nov
Durban09:18 → 11:3011:2048 min11:219 min29 Nov
Dubai11:18 → 13:3011:4348 min11:4348 min29 Nov
Delhi12:48 → 15:0011:450 min11:4648 min30 Nov
Kolkata12:48 → 15:0011:010 min11:0148 min30 Nov
Singapore15:18 → 17:3012:290 min12:2948 min30 Nov
Sydney18:18 → 20:3012:200 min12:2048 min30 Nov
Suva19:18 → 21:3011:310 min11:3148 min30 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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