Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1962

Thursday 20 September

Determinatein Phoenix, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 266 minutes.

Decide it for

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33°27′ N 112°04′ W · America/Phoenix · GeoNames 5308655

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Wednesday 19 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:29 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:03
18:0518:2918:5319:1719:4120:0520:29

0 of 94 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 20 September

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

18:28 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:02
18:0418:2818:5219:1619:4020:0420:28

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 00:55 on Thu 20 Sep to 00:28 on Fri 21 Sep.

    1962-09-20T07:54:35Z → 1962-09-21T07:28:28Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:29–20:03 on the 19th, 18:28–20:02 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 15970 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Phoenix, 1962: Thursday 20 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Phoenix, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1962 falls on Thursday 20 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 00:55 on Thu 20 Sep to 00:28 on Fri 21 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/phoenix/festivals/1962/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 20 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 20 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 20 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Phoenix.

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 20thCoveredSunset 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:55 → 00:2818:5394 min18:510 min20 Sep
Chicago02:55 → 02:2818:5294 min18:500 min20 Sep
Jersey City03:55 → 03:2818:5794 min18:560 min20 Sep
Port of Spain03:55 → 03:2818:0395 min18:030 min20 Sep
London08:55 → 08:2819:0493 min19:020 min20 Sep
Durban09:55 → 09:2817:5096 min17:510 min20 Sep
Dubai11:55 → 11:2818:1895 min18:170 min20 Sep
Delhi13:25 → 12:5818:2194 min18:200 min20 Sep
Kolkata13:25 → 12:5817:3595 min17:340 min20 Sep
Singapore15:25 → 14:5818:3195 min18:310 min20 Sep
Sydney17:55 → 17:2817:4990 min17:500 min20 Sep
Suva19:55 → 19:2818:020 min18:0287 min21 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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