Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1919

Tuesday 16 September

Determinatein Queens, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 480 minutes.

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40°41′ N 73°50′ W · America/New_York · GeoNames 5133273

The two evenings

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

Evening of Monday 15 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:06 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:38
18:4219:0619:3019:5420:1820:4221:06

0 of 92 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 16 September

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

19:04 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:36
18:4019:0419:2819:5220:1620:4021:04

92 of 92 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 06:30 on Tue 16 Sep to 04:37 on Wed 17 Sep.

    1919-09-16T10:30:23Z → 1919-09-17T08:36:39Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:06–20:38 on the 15th, 19:04–20:36 on the 16th.

    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 92 minutes on the 15th and 92 of 92 on the 16th.

    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 28814 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Queens, 1919: Tuesday 16 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Queens, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1919 falls on Tuesday 16 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 06:30 on Tue 16 Sep to 04:37 on Wed 17 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/queens/festivals/1919/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 16 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 16 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 16 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Queens.

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 16thCoveredSunset 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:30 → 01:3718:5993 min18:580 min16 Sep
Chicago05:30 → 03:3719:0092 min18:580 min16 Sep
Jersey City06:30 → 04:3719:0592 min19:030 min16 Sep
Port of Spain06:30 → 04:3718:0695 min18:060 min16 Sep
London11:30 → 09:3719:1591 min19:130 min16 Sep
Durban12:30 → 10:3717:4897 min17:480 min16 Sep
Dubai14:11 → 12:1818:0494 min18:030 min16 Sep
Delhi16:00 → 14:0718:2693 min18:250 min16 Sep
Kolkata16:00 → 14:0717:4094 min17:390 min16 Sep
Singapore17:30 → 15:3718:0395 min18:030 min16 Sep
Sydney20:30 → 18:3717:460 min17:4750 min17 Sep
Suva22:30 → 20:3718:010 min18:0196 min17 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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