Ruling · Hala Ṣaṣṭhī · 1904

Thursday 1 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 490 minutes.

Decide it for

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 31 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:54  12:42 madhyāhna ends
11:0611:3011:5412:1812:4213:0613:30

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 1 September

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:54  12:42 madhyāhna ends
11:0611:3011:5412:1812:4213:0613:30

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 20:52 on Wed 31 Aug to 22:13 on Thu 1 Sep.

    1904-08-31T12:52:20Z → 1904-09-01T14:13:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:54–12:42 on the 31st, 11:54–12:42 on the 1st.

    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 31st and 48 of 48 on the 1st.

    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 29407 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Hala Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 1904: Thursday 1 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Hala Ṣaṣṭhī 1904 falls on Thursday 1 September. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 20:52 on Wed 31 Aug to 22:13 on Thu 1 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1904/hala-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 1 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 1 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 1 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/hala-shashthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

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

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 31stCoveredMadhyāhna 1stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:52 → 06:1311:2948 min11:290 min31 Aug
Chicago06:52 → 08:1311:2648 min11:260 min31 Aug
Jersey City07:52 → 09:1311:3248 min11:320 min31 Aug
Port of Spain08:52 → 10:1311:4248 min11:420 min31 Aug
London12:52 → 14:1311:360 min11:3648 min1 Sep
Durban14:52 → 16:1311:320 min11:3248 min1 Sep
Dubai16:33 → 17:5411:360 min11:3648 min1 Sep
Delhi18:13 → 19:3411:480 min11:4848 min1 Sep
Kolkata18:13 → 19:3411:040 min11:0348 min1 Sep
Singapore19:47 → 21:0811:360 min11:3648 min1 Sep
Sydney22:52 → 00:1311:320 min11:3248 min1 Sep
Suva00:47 → 02:0811:380 min11:3848 min1 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
hala-shashthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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