Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 2005

Sunday 25 September

Determinatein Xining, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 313 minutes.

Decide it for

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36°38′ N 101°45′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1788852

The two evenings

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

Evening of Saturday 24 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:07 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:43
18:4319:0719:3119:5520:1920:4321:07

0 of 95 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 25 September

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

19:06 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:41
18:4219:0619:3019:5420:1820:4221:06

96 of 96 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 01:56 on Sun 25 Sep to 03:34 on Mon 26 Sep.

    2005-09-24T17:56:00Z → 2005-09-25T19:34:06Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:07–20:43 on the 24th, 19:06–20:41 on the 25th.

    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 95 minutes on the 24th and 96 of 96 on the 25th.

    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 18806 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Xining, 2005: Sunday 25 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Xining, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2005 falls on Sunday 25 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 01:56 on Sun 25 Sep to 03:34 on Mon 26 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/xining/festivals/2005/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 25 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 25 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 25 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Xining.

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 24thCoveredSunset 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:56 → 12:3418:4696 min18:450 min24 Sep
Chicago12:56 → 14:3418:4496 min18:420 min24 Sep
Jersey City13:56 → 15:3418:5096 min18:480 min24 Sep
Port of Spain13:56 → 15:3418:0095 min18:000 min24 Sep
London18:56 → 20:3418:5494 min18:5296 min25 Sep
Durban19:56 → 21:3417:530 min17:5394 min25 Sep
Dubai21:56 → 23:3418:130 min18:1296 min25 Sep
Delhi23:26 → 01:0418:150 min18:1496 min25 Sep
Kolkata23:26 → 01:0417:310 min17:3096 min25 Sep
Singapore01:56 → 03:3419:000 min18:5995 min25 Sep
Sydney03:56 → 05:3417:520 min17:5394 min25 Sep
Suva05:56 → 07:3418:020 min18:0295 min25 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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