Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 1908

Wednesday 2 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 214 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 Tuesday 1 September

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 Wednesday 2 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 16:16 on Tue 1 Sep to 16:57 on Wed 2 Sep.

    1908-09-01T08:16:09Z → 1908-09-02T08:57:13Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:54–12:42 on the 1st, 11:54–12:42 on the 2nd.

    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 1st and 48 of 48 on the 2nd.

    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 12855 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 1908: Wednesday 2 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 1908 falls on Wednesday 2 September. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 16:16 on Tue 1 Sep to 16:57 on Wed 2 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1908/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 2 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 2 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 2 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 1stCoveredMadhyāhna 2ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:16 → 00:5711:2948 min11:280 min1 Sep
Chicago02:16 → 02:5711:2648 min11:260 min1 Sep
Jersey City03:16 → 03:5711:3248 min11:320 min1 Sep
Port of Spain04:16 → 04:5711:4248 min11:420 min1 Sep
London08:16 → 08:5711:3648 min11:360 min1 Sep
Durban10:16 → 10:5711:3248 min11:320 min1 Sep
Dubai11:57 → 12:3811:3626 min11:3548 min2 Sep
Delhi13:46 → 14:2711:570 min11:5748 min2 Sep
Kolkata13:46 → 14:2711:120 min11:1248 min2 Sep
Singapore15:16 → 15:5711:410 min11:4048 min2 Sep
Sydney18:16 → 18:5711:320 min11:3148 min2 Sep
Suva20:11 → 20:5211:380 min11:3748 min2 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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