Midday of Tuesday 12 November
Navamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.
madhyāhna begins 11:18 12:06 madhyāhna ends
Navamī begins 12:08:25
10:3010:5411:1811:4212:0612:3012:54
0 of 48 minutes covered
Ruling · Durgā Navamī · 1918
Boundaryin Shaoxing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 2 min 46 s away. Say “contested”.
One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.
Midday of Tuesday 12 November
Navamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.
0 of 48 minutes covered
Midday of Wednesday 13 November
Taken. Navamī reaches neither midday; the rule takes the second day.
0 of 48 minutes covered
Aṅga
Navamī runs from 12:08 on Tue 12 Nov to 10:24 on Wed 13 Nov.
1918-11-12T04:08:26Z → 1918-11-13T02:24:12Z
Kāla
Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:18–12:06 on the 12th, 11:18–12:06 on the 13th.
madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Navamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 12th and 0 of 48 on the 13th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Neither midday qualifies. The rule takes the second day.
priority: purvaviddha → second-day · margin 166 s < 300 s
Ruling
Durgā Navamī, Shaoxing, 1918: Wednesday 13 November.
confidence: boundary (margin)
In Shaoxing, Durgā Navamī 1918 falls on Wednesday 13 November. Navamī runs from 12:08 on Tue 12 Nov to 10:24 on Wed 13 Nov, and reaches madhyāhna on neither day. It is 2 min 46 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Wed 13 Nov |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Wed 13 Nov |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Tue 12 Nov |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Shaoxing. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/durga-navami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“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.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Navamī | Madhyāhna 12th | Covered | Madhyāhna 13th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 20:08 → 18:24 | 11:13 | 48 min | 11:13 | 0 min | 12 Nov |
| Chicago | 22:08 → 20:24 | 11:11 | 48 min | 11:11 | 0 min | 12 Nov |
| Jersey City | 23:08 → 21:24 | 11:16 | 48 min | 11:16 | 0 min | 12 Nov |
| Port of Spain | 00:08 → 22:24 | 11:26 | 48 min | 11:26 | 0 min | 12 Nov |
| London | 04:08 → 02:24 | 11:20 | 48 min | 11:20 | 0 min | 12 Nov |
| Durban | 06:08 → 04:24 | 11:16 | 48 min | 11:16 | 0 min | 12 Nov |
| Dubai | 07:49 → 06:05 | 11:20 | 48 min | 11:20 | 0 min | 12 Nov |
| Delhi | 09:38 → 07:54 | 11:41 | 48 min | 11:41 | 0 min | 12 Nov |
| Kolkata | 09:38 → 07:54 | 10:57 | 48 min | 10:57 | 0 min | 12 Nov |
| Singapore | 11:08 → 09:24 | 11:25 | 48 min | 11:25 | 0 min | 12 Nov |
| Sydney | 14:08 → 12:24 | 11:16 | 0 min | 11:16 | 48 min | 13 Nov |
| Suva | 16:08 → 14:24 | 11:27 | 0 min | 11:27 | 48 min | 13 Nov |