Ruling · Guru Pūrṇimā · 1934

Thursday 26 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 440 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Wednesday 25 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:00  12:48 madhyāhna ends
11:1211:3612:0012:2412:4813:1213:36

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 26 July

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:00  12:48 madhyāhna ends
11:1211:3612:0012:2412:4813:1213:36

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 23:56 on Wed 25 Jul to 20:09 on Thu 26 Jul.

    1934-07-25T15:55:57Z → 1934-07-26T12:08:30Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:00–12:48 on the 25th, 12:00–12:48 on the 26th.

    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 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: paraviddha → only-day · margin 26414 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Guru Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1934: Thursday 26 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Guru Pūrṇimā 1934 falls on Thursday 26 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 23:56 on Wed 25 Jul to 20:09 on Thu 26 Jul and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1934/guru-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 26 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 26 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 26 Jul
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/guru-purnima · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Guru purnima (paraviddha), Vyasa puja (paraviddha, 3 muhurtas after sunrise), Kokila vrata (sayahna vyapini). Siva sayanotsava (pradosavyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāMadhyāhna 25thCoveredMadhyāhna 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:56 → 04:0911:3548 min11:350 min25 Jul
Chicago10:56 → 07:0912:3348 min12:330 min25 Jul
Jersey City11:56 → 08:0912:3848 min12:380 min25 Jul
Port of Spain11:56 → 08:0911:4840 min11:480 min25 Jul
London16:56 → 13:0912:420 min12:4226 min26 Jul
Durban17:56 → 14:0911:380 min11:3848 min26 Jul
Dubai19:56 → 16:0912:010 min12:0148 min26 Jul
Delhi21:26 → 17:3912:030 min12:0348 min26 Jul
Kolkata21:26 → 17:3911:190 min11:1948 min26 Jul
Singapore23:16 → 19:2912:070 min12:0748 min26 Jul
Sydney01:56 → 22:0911:380 min11:3848 min26 Jul
Suva03:56 → 00:0911:490 min11:4948 min26 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
guru-purnima@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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