Ruling · Kālī Pūjā · 1919

Thursday 23 October

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 173 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two nights

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Niśītha is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midnight.

Night of Wednesday 22 October

Amāvasyā is absent from niśītha. Not taken.

niśītha begins 23:01  23:49 niśītha ends
22:1322:3723:0123:2523:4900:1300:37

0 of 48 minutes covered

Night of Thursday 23 October

Taken. The only night Amāvasyā reaches.

niśītha begins 23:01  23:49 niśītha ends
22:1322:3723:0123:2523:4900:1300:37

48 of 48 minutes covered

Amāvasyā presentNiśītha, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Amāvasyā runs from 02:42 on Thu 23 Oct to 04:39 on Fri 24 Oct.

    1919-10-22T18:41:54Z → 1919-10-23T20:39:02Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Niśītha is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midnight: 23:01–23:49 on the 22nd, 23:01–23:49 on the 23rd.

    nishita: midnight-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Amāvasyā must be present during niśītha. 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 night qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 10368 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Kālī Pūjā, Daqing, 1919: Thursday 23 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Kālī Pūjā 1919 falls on Thursday 23 October. Amāvasyā runs from 02:42 on Thu 23 Oct to 04:39 on Fri 24 Oct and covers all of niśītha that night.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1919/kali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 23 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 23 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 23 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Daqing.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/kali-puja · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Amāvasyā
Kāla
Niśītha
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 30 Kali puja (nisithavyapini), Dipavali or Diwali (pradosa), Mahalaksmipuja (pradosa)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAmāvasyāNiśītha 22ndCoveredNiśītha 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:42 → 13:3900:1448 min00:140 min22 Oct
Chicago13:42 → 15:3900:1248 min00:110 min22 Oct
Jersey City14:42 → 16:3900:1748 min00:170 min22 Oct
Port of Spain14:42 → 16:3923:2748 min23:270 min22 Oct
London18:42 → 20:3923:2248 min23:210 min22 Oct
Durban20:42 → 22:3923:1648 min23:160 min22 Oct
Dubai22:23 → 00:2023:2148 min23:2048 min22 Oct
Delhi00:12 → 02:0923:4218 min23:4248 min23 Oct
Kolkata00:12 → 02:0922:570 min22:5748 min23 Oct
Singapore01:42 → 03:3923:250 min23:2548 min23 Oct
Sydney04:42 → 06:3923:160 min23:1548 min23 Oct
Suva06:42 → 08:3923:270 min23:2748 min23 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
kali-puja@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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