Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 2015

Thursday 12 November

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 460 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 Wednesday 11 November

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

16:12 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:07
15:4816:1216:3617:0017:2417:4818:1218:36

0 of 115 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 12 November

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

16:11 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:06
15:4716:1116:3516:5917:2317:4718:1118:35

116 of 116 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 01:47 on Thu 12 Nov to 03:16 on Fri 13 Nov.

    2015-11-11T17:47:08Z → 2015-11-12T19:15:30Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 16:12–18:07 on the 11th, 16:11–18:06 on the 12th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 115 minutes on the 11th and 116 of 116 on the 12th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 27597 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Daqing, 2015: Thursday 12 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Bali Pūjā 2015 falls on Thursday 12 November. Pratipadā runs from 01:47 on Thu 12 Nov to 03:16 on Fri 13 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2015/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 12 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 12 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 12 Nov
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/bali-puja · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pratipadā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 1 Govardhana puja, Annakuta [purvaviddha], Balidaityaraja puja (pradosa), Dyuta pratipad (purvahna).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePratipadāSunset 11thCoveredSunset 12thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:47 → 11:1616:52108 min16:510 min11 Nov
Chicago11:47 → 13:1616:33112 min16:330 min11 Nov
Jersey City12:47 → 14:1616:42112 min16:410 min11 Nov
Port of Spain13:47 → 15:1617:4099 min17:400 min11 Nov
London17:47 → 19:1616:1729 min16:16120 min12 Nov
Durban19:47 → 21:1618:252 min18:2684 min12 Nov
Dubai21:47 → 23:1617:330 min17:32104 min12 Nov
Delhi23:17 → 00:4617:290 min17:29106 min12 Nov
Kolkata23:17 → 00:4616:540 min16:54103 min12 Nov
Singapore01:47 → 03:1618:500 min18:5096 min12 Nov
Sydney04:47 → 06:1619:320 min19:3382 min12 Nov
Suva06:47 → 08:1619:170 min19:1889 min12 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
bali-puja@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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