Ruling · Kārtikī Pūrṇimā · 2070

Tuesday 18 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 74 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 17 November

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 18 November

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

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 17:01 on Mon 17 Nov to 13:41 on Tue 18 Nov.

    2070-11-17T09:01:06Z → 2070-11-18T05:41:09Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:39–12:27 on the 17th, 11:39–12:27 on the 18th.

    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 17th and 48 of 48 on the 18th.

    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 4436 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Kārtikī Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 2070: Tuesday 18 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Kārtikī Pūrṇimā 2070 falls on Tuesday 18 November. Pūrṇimā runs from 17:01 on Mon 17 Nov to 13:41 on Tue 18 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2070/kartiki-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 18 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 18 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 18 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 17thCoveredMadhyāhna 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:01 → 21:4111:1448 min11:140 min17 Nov
Chicago03:01 → 23:4111:1248 min11:120 min17 Nov
Jersey City04:01 → 00:4111:1748 min11:170 min17 Nov
Port of Spain05:01 → 01:4111:2748 min11:270 min17 Nov
London09:01 → 05:4111:2148 min11:220 min17 Nov
Durban11:01 → 07:4111:1748 min11:170 min17 Nov
Dubai13:01 → 09:4111:400 min11:400 min18 Nov
Delhi14:31 → 11:1111:420 min11:420 min18 Nov
Kolkata14:31 → 11:1110:580 min10:5813 min18 Nov
Singapore17:01 → 13:4112:260 min12:2648 min18 Nov
Sydney20:01 → 16:4112:160 min12:1748 min18 Nov
Suva21:01 → 17:4111:270 min11:2848 min18 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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