Ruling · Durgā Navamī · 2087

Tuesday 4 November

Boundaryin Datong, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 2 min 59 s away. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

40°06′ N 113°17′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 2037799

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Tuesday 4 November

Taken. The only midday Navamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:46  12:34 madhyāhna ends
Navamī begins 12:00:00
10:5811:2211:4612:1012:3412:5813:22

34 of 48 minutes covered, the last 34

Midday of Wednesday 5 November

Navamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:46  12:34 madhyāhna ends
Navamī ends 11:43:25
10:5811:2211:4612:1012:3412:5813:22

0 of 48 minutes covered

Navamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Navamī runs from 12:00 on Tue 4 Nov to 11:43 on Wed 5 Nov.

    2087-11-04T04:00:01Z → 2087-11-05T03:43:26Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:46–12:34 on the 4th, 11:46–12:34 on the 5th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Navamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 34 of 48 minutes on the 4th and 0 of 48 on the 5th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 179 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Durgā Navamī, Datong, 2087: Tuesday 4 November.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Datong, Durgā Navamī 2087 falls on Tuesday 4 November. Navamī runs from 12:00 on Tue 4 Nov to 11:43 on Wed 5 Nov and covers 34 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday. It is 2 min 59 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/datong/festivals/2087/durga-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 4 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 4 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 4 Nov
No institution has a recorded ruling for Datong.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/durga-navami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Navamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 9 Aksaya navami (purvahnavyapini), Jagaddhatri puja (Bengal), (udayavyapini one muhurta), Anla navami (Orissa), Durga navami (purvaviddha), Gauri vrata.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceNavamīMadhyāhna 4thCoveredMadhyāhna 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:00 → 19:4311:1348 min11:130 min4 Nov
Chicago22:00 → 21:4311:1048 min11:100 min4 Nov
Jersey City23:00 → 22:4311:1648 min11:160 min4 Nov
Port of Spain00:00 → 23:4311:2648 min11:260 min4 Nov
London04:00 → 03:4311:2048 min11:200 min4 Nov
Durban06:00 → 05:4311:1648 min11:160 min4 Nov
Dubai08:00 → 07:4311:3848 min11:380 min4 Nov
Delhi09:30 → 09:1311:4148 min11:410 min4 Nov
Kolkata09:30 → 09:1310:5648 min10:560 min4 Nov
Singapore12:00 → 11:4312:2448 min12:240 min4 Nov
Sydney15:00 → 14:4312:150 min12:1548 min5 Nov
Suva16:00 → 15:4311:260 min11:2648 min5 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
durga-navami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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