Ruling · Buddha Pūrṇimā · 1902

Thursday 22 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 222 minutes.

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The two middays

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

Midday of Wednesday 21 May

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 22 May

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 16:21 on Wed 21 May to 18:46 on Thu 22 May.

    1902-05-21T08:20:56Z → 1902-05-22T10:45:57Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 21st, 11:51–12:39 on the 22nd.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 21st and 48 of 48 on the 22nd.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 13332 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Buddha Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1902: Thursday 22 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Buddha Pūrṇimā 1902 falls on Thursday 22 May. Pūrṇimā runs from 16:21 on Wed 21 May to 18:46 on Thu 22 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1902/buddha-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 22 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 22 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 22 May
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/buddha-purnima · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Sampat gauri vrata (paraviddha), Phuladola (Bengal & Orissa) (paraviddha), Gandhesvari puja (Bengal) (purvaviddha), Buddha purnima, Vaisakhi purnima.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāMadhyāhna 21stCoveredMadhyāhna 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:21 → 02:4611:2648 min11:260 min21 May
Chicago02:21 → 04:4611:2348 min11:230 min21 May
Jersey City03:21 → 05:4611:2948 min11:290 min21 May
Port of Spain04:21 → 06:4611:3848 min11:390 min21 May
London08:21 → 10:4611:3348 min11:330 min21 May
Durban09:51 → 12:1610:5848 min10:5848 min21 May
Dubai12:02 → 14:2711:3218 min11:3248 min22 May
Delhi13:42 → 16:0711:450 min11:4548 min22 May
Kolkata13:42 → 16:0711:000 min11:0048 min22 May
Singapore15:16 → 17:4111:320 min11:3248 min22 May
Sydney18:21 → 20:4611:270 min11:2748 min22 May
Suva20:16 → 22:4111:340 min11:3448 min22 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
buddha-purnima@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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