Ruling · Buddha Pūrṇimā · 1906

Tuesday 8 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 571 minutes.

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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 Monday 7 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 Tuesday 8 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 02:05 on Tue 8 May to 22:09 on Tue 8 May.

    1906-05-07T18:05:04Z → 1906-05-08T14:09:29Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 7th, 11:51–12:39 on the 8th.

    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 7th and 48 of 48 on the 8th.

    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 34238 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Buddha Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1906: Tuesday 8 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Buddha Pūrṇimā 1906 falls on Tuesday 8 May. Pūrṇimā runs from 02:05 on Tue 8 May to 22:09 on Tue 8 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1906/buddha-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 8 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 8 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 8 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 7thCoveredMadhyāhna 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:05 → 06:0911:2648 min11:260 min7 May
Chicago12:05 → 08:0911:236 min11:230 min7 May
Jersey City13:05 → 09:0911:290 min11:290 min8 May
Port of Spain14:05 → 10:0911:390 min11:390 min8 May
London18:05 → 14:0911:330 min11:3348 min8 May
Durban20:05 → 16:0911:280 min11:2848 min8 May
Dubai21:46 → 17:5011:320 min11:3248 min8 May
Delhi23:35 → 19:3911:540 min11:5448 min8 May
Kolkata23:35 → 19:3911:090 min11:0948 min8 May
Singapore01:05 → 21:0911:370 min11:3748 min8 May
Sydney04:05 → 00:0911:270 min11:2748 min8 May
Suva06:00 → 02:0411:340 min11:3448 min8 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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