Ruling · Bali Pūjā · 2022

Wednesday 26 October

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 24 minutes.

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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 Tuesday 25 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

16:36 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:25
16:1216:3617:0017:2417:4818:1218:36

0 of 109 minutes covered

Evening of Wednesday 26 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

16:35 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:24
Pratipadā ends 17:12:40
16:1116:3516:5917:2317:4718:1118:35

38 of 109 minutes covered, the first 38

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 18:49 on Tue 25 Oct to 17:13 on Wed 26 Oct.

    2022-10-25T10:48:42Z → 2022-10-26T09:12:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 16:36–18:25 on the 25th, 16:35–18:24 on the 26th.

    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 109 minutes on the 25th and 38 of 109 on the 26th.

    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 1413 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Daqing, 2022: Wednesday 26 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Bali Pūjā 2022 falls on Wednesday 26 October. Pratipadā runs from 18:49 on Tue 25 Oct to 17:13 on Wed 26 Oct and covers 38 of 109 minutes of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2022/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 26 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 26 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 26 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 25thCoveredSunset 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:49 → 02:1318:07104 min18:060 min25 Oct
Chicago05:49 → 04:1317:54107 min17:520 min25 Oct
Jersey City06:49 → 05:1318:01107 min18:000 min25 Oct
Port of Spain06:49 → 05:1317:4498 min17:440 min25 Oct
London11:49 → 10:1317:46112 min17:450 min25 Oct
Durban12:49 → 11:1318:1287 min18:130 min25 Oct
Dubai14:49 → 13:1317:43101 min17:420 min25 Oct
Delhi16:19 → 14:4317:42102 min17:410 min25 Oct
Kolkata16:19 → 14:4317:04101 min17:030 min25 Oct
Singapore18:49 → 17:1318:5195 min18:510 min25 Oct
Sydney21:49 → 20:1319:160 min19:1755 min26 Oct
Suva22:49 → 21:1318:100 min18:1091 min26 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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