Ruling · Hala Ṣaṣṭhī · 1914

Wednesday 12 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 133 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 11 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:59  12:47 madhyāhna ends
11:1111:3511:5912:2312:4713:1113:35

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 12 August

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:59  12:47 madhyāhna ends
11:1111:3511:5912:2312:4713:1113:35

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 15:00 on Tue 11 Aug to 17:24 on Wed 12 Aug.

    1914-08-11T06:59:40Z → 1914-08-12T09:24:14Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:59–12:47 on the 11th, 11:59–12:47 on the 12th.

    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 11th and 48 of 48 on the 12th.

    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 7957 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Hala Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 1914: Wednesday 12 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Hala Ṣaṣṭhī 1914 falls on Wednesday 12 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 15:00 on Tue 11 Aug to 17:24 on Wed 12 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1914/hala-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 12 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 12 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 12 Aug
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 11thCoveredMadhyāhna 12thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:00 → 01:2411:3448 min11:340 min11 Aug
Chicago01:00 → 03:2411:3148 min11:310 min11 Aug
Jersey City02:00 → 04:2411:3748 min11:370 min11 Aug
Port of Spain03:00 → 05:2411:4748 min11:470 min11 Aug
London07:00 → 09:2411:4148 min11:410 min11 Aug
Durban09:00 → 11:2411:3748 min11:370 min11 Aug
Dubai10:41 → 13:0511:4148 min11:4148 min12 Aug
Delhi12:30 → 14:5412:0220 min12:0248 min12 Aug
Kolkata12:30 → 14:5411:180 min11:1748 min12 Aug
Singapore14:00 → 16:2411:460 min11:4648 min12 Aug
Sydney17:00 → 19:2411:370 min11:3648 min12 Aug
Suva18:55 → 21:1911:430 min11:4248 min12 Aug
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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