Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 2017

Friday 20 October

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 519 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 Thursday 19 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

16:46 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:33
16:2216:4617:1017:3417:5818:2218:46

0 of 106 minutes covered

Evening of Friday 20 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

16:44 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:31
16:2016:4417:0817:3217:5618:2018:44

107 of 107 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 03:12 on Fri 20 Oct to 04:07 on Sat 21 Oct.

    2017-10-19T19:12:03Z → 2017-10-20T20:07:21Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 16:46–18:33 on the 19th, 16:44–18:31 on the 20th.

    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 106 minutes on the 19th and 107 of 107 on the 20th.

    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 31162 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Daqing, 2017: Friday 20 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Bali Pūjā 2017 falls on Friday 20 October. Pratipadā runs from 03:12 on Fri 20 Oct to 04:07 on Sat 21 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2017/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 20 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 20 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 20 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/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 19thCoveredSunset 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:12 → 13:0718:13103 min18:120 min19 Oct
Chicago14:12 → 15:0718:02105 min18:010 min19 Oct
Jersey City15:12 → 16:0718:09105 min18:080 min19 Oct
Port of Spain15:12 → 16:0717:4697 min17:460 min19 Oct
London20:12 → 21:0717:580 min17:56109 min20 Oct
Durban21:12 → 22:0718:080 min18:0988 min20 Oct
Dubai23:12 → 00:0717:480 min17:47100 min20 Oct
Delhi00:42 → 01:3717:470 min17:46101 min20 Oct
Kolkata00:42 → 01:3717:080 min17:07100 min20 Oct
Singapore03:12 → 04:0718:520 min18:5295 min20 Oct
Sydney06:12 → 07:0719:110 min19:1287 min20 Oct
Suva07:12 → 08:0718:080 min18:0891 min20 Oct
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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