Ruling · Hala Ṣaṣṭhī · 1918

Tuesday 27 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 326 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 Monday 26 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:56  12:44 madhyāhna ends
11:0811:3211:5612:2012:4413:0813:32

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 27 August

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:56  12:44 madhyāhna ends
11:0811:3211:5612:2012:4413:0813:32

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 20:38 on Mon 26 Aug to 18:10 on Tue 27 Aug.

    1918-08-26T12:38:10Z → 1918-08-27T10:09:49Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:56–12:44 on the 26th, 11:56–12:44 on the 27th.

    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 26th and 48 of 48 on the 27th.

    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 19577 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Hala Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 1918: Tuesday 27 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Hala Ṣaṣṭhī 1918 falls on Tuesday 27 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 20:38 on Mon 26 Aug to 18:10 on Tue 27 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1918/hala-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 27 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 27 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 27 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 26thCoveredMadhyāhna 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:38 → 03:1012:3148 min12:300 min26 Aug
Chicago07:38 → 05:1012:2848 min12:280 min26 Aug
Jersey City08:38 → 06:1012:3448 min12:340 min26 Aug
Port of Spain08:38 → 06:1011:4448 min11:440 min26 Aug
London13:38 → 11:1012:380 min12:380 min27 Aug
Durban14:38 → 12:1011:340 min11:3436 min27 Aug
Dubai16:19 → 13:5111:380 min11:3748 min27 Aug
Delhi18:08 → 15:4011:590 min11:5948 min27 Aug
Kolkata18:08 → 15:4011:140 min11:1448 min27 Aug
Singapore19:38 → 17:1011:430 min11:4248 min27 Aug
Sydney22:38 → 20:1011:330 min11:3348 min27 Aug
Suva00:38 → 22:1011:440 min11:4448 min27 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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