Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 1901

Thursday 19 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 187 minutes.

Decide it for

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38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two middays

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

Midday of Wednesday 18 September

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:48  12:36 madhyāhna ends
11:0011:2411:4812:1212:3613:0013:24

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 19 September

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:48  12:36 madhyāhna ends
11:0011:2411:4812:1212:3613:0013:24

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 15:44 on Wed 18 Sep to 18:19 on Thu 19 Sep.

    1901-09-18T07:43:32Z → 1901-09-19T10:19:28Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:48–12:36 on the 18th, 11:48–12:36 on the 19th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Ṣaṣṭhī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 18th and 48 of 48 on the 19th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 11238 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 1901: Thursday 19 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 1901 falls on Thursday 19 September. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 15:44 on Wed 18 Sep to 18:19 on Thu 19 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1901/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 19 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 19 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 19 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

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

The rule, as data

/rules/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 6 Surya sasthi (paraviddha), Lolarka sasthi” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 18thCoveredMadhyāhna 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:44 → 02:1911:2348 min11:230 min18 Sep
Chicago01:44 → 04:1911:2048 min11:200 min18 Sep
Jersey City02:44 → 05:1911:2648 min11:260 min18 Sep
Port of Spain03:44 → 06:1911:3648 min11:360 min18 Sep
London07:44 → 10:1911:3048 min11:300 min18 Sep
Durban09:14 → 11:4910:5648 min10:5648 min19 Sep
Dubai11:25 → 14:0011:3048 min11:3048 min19 Sep
Delhi13:05 → 15:4011:420 min11:4248 min19 Sep
Kolkata13:05 → 15:4010:580 min10:5748 min19 Sep
Singapore14:39 → 17:1411:300 min11:3048 min19 Sep
Sydney17:44 → 20:1911:260 min11:2648 min19 Sep
Suva19:39 → 22:1411:320 min11:3248 min19 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
surya-shashthi-bhadrapada@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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