Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1954

Sunday 19 September

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 585 minutes.

Decide it for

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46°35′ N 125°00′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 2037860

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Sunday 19 September

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

17:45 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:18
17:2117:4518:0918:3318:5719:2119:45

93 of 93 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 20 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:43 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:17
17:1917:4318:0718:3118:5519:1919:43

0 of 93 minutes covered

Aṣṭamī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 08:00 on Sun 19 Sep to 06:29 on Mon 20 Sep.

    1954-09-19T00:00:17Z → 1954-09-19T22:29:28Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:45–19:18 on the 19th, 17:43–19:17 on the 20th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 93 of 93 minutes on the 19th and 0 of 93 on the 20th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 35105 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Daqing, 1954: Sunday 19 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1954 falls on Sunday 19 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 08:00 on Sun 19 Sep to 06:29 on Mon 20 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1954/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 19 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 19 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 19 Sep
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/jitashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 8 Mahalaksmi vrata samapana (current at moonrise), Jitastami (pradosa), Jimutavahana puja” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīSunset 19thCoveredSunset 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:00 → 15:2918:540 min18:530 min18 Sep
Chicago19:00 → 17:2918:540 min18:520 min18 Sep
Jersey City20:00 → 18:2918:590 min18:570 min18 Sep
Port of Spain20:00 → 18:2918:0425 min18:030 min19 Sep
London01:00 → 23:2919:0793 min19:050 min19 Sep
Durban02:00 → 00:2917:5096 min17:500 min19 Sep
Dubai04:00 → 02:2918:1994 min18:180 min19 Sep
Delhi05:30 → 03:5918:2294 min18:210 min19 Sep
Kolkata05:30 → 03:5917:3694 min17:350 min19 Sep
Singapore07:30 → 05:5918:3295 min18:310 min19 Sep
Sydney10:00 → 08:2917:4896 min17:490 min19 Sep
Suva12:00 → 10:2918:0196 min18:020 min19 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
jitashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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