Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 2076

Sunday 20 September

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 75 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 Saturday 19 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:43 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:16
17:1917:4318:0718:3118:5519:1919:43

0 of 94 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 20 September

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

17:41 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:15
17:1717:4118:0518:2918:5319:1719:41

94 of 94 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 20:31 on Sat 19 Sep to 21:53 on Sun 20 Sep.

    2076-09-19T12:31:28Z → 2076-09-20T13:52:57Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:43–19:16 on the 19th, 17:41–19:15 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 0 of 94 minutes on the 19th and 94 of 94 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 4504 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Daqing, 2076: Sunday 20 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2076 falls on Sunday 20 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 20:31 on Sat 19 Sep to 21:53 on Sun 20 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2076/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 20 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 20 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 20 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 Angeles05:31 → 06:5318:5294 min18:510 min19 Sep
Chicago07:31 → 08:5318:5194 min18:500 min19 Sep
Jersey City08:31 → 09:5318:5794 min18:550 min19 Sep
Port of Spain08:31 → 09:5318:0395 min18:030 min19 Sep
London13:31 → 14:5319:0494 min19:010 min19 Sep
Durban14:31 → 15:5317:5196 min17:510 min19 Sep
Dubai16:31 → 17:5318:1895 min18:170 min19 Sep
Delhi18:01 → 19:2318:2094 min18:1964 min19 Sep
Kolkata18:01 → 19:2317:3569 min17:3495 min20 Sep
Singapore20:31 → 21:5319:025 min19:0195 min20 Sep
Sydney22:31 → 23:5317:500 min17:5095 min20 Sep
Suva00:31 → 01:5318:020 min18:0295 min20 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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