Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī · 1917

Thursday 26 April

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 383 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 Wednesday 25 April

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:53  12:41 madhyāhna ends
11:0511:2911:5312:1712:4113:0513:29

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 26 April

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:52  12:40 madhyāhna ends
11:0411:2811:5212:1612:4013:0413:28

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 19:04 on Wed 25 Apr to 20:09 on Thu 26 Apr.

    1917-04-25T11:03:48Z → 1917-04-26T12:08:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:53–12:41 on the 25th, 11:52–12:40 on the 26th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 25th and 48 of 48 on the 26th.

    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 22997 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 1917: Thursday 26 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī 1917 falls on Thursday 26 April. Pañcamī runs from 19:04 on Wed 25 Apr to 20:09 on Thu 26 Apr and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1917/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 26 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 26 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 26 Apr
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/shankara-jayanti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 5 Sankara jayanti.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 25thCoveredMadhyāhna 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:04 → 04:0911:2748 min11:270 min25 Apr
Chicago05:04 → 06:0911:2548 min11:250 min25 Apr
Jersey City06:04 → 07:0911:3148 min11:300 min25 Apr
Port of Spain07:04 → 08:0911:4048 min11:400 min25 Apr
London12:04 → 13:0912:3548 min12:3534 min25 Apr
Durban13:04 → 14:0911:300 min11:3048 min26 Apr
Dubai14:45 → 15:5011:340 min11:3448 min26 Apr
Delhi16:34 → 17:3911:550 min11:5548 min26 Apr
Kolkata16:34 → 17:3911:110 min11:1148 min26 Apr
Singapore18:04 → 19:0911:390 min11:3848 min26 Apr
Sydney21:04 → 22:0911:290 min11:2948 min26 Apr
Suva23:04 → 00:0911:400 min11:4048 min26 Apr
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shankara-jayanti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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