Ruling · Tila Caturthī · 1939

Tuesday 24 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 572 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Monday 23 January

Caturthī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:28 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:20
17:0417:2817:5218:1618:4019:0419:2819:52

0 of 113 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 24 January

Taken. The only evening Caturthī reaches.

17:29 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:21
17:0517:2917:5318:1718:4119:0519:2919:53

112 of 112 minutes covered

Caturthī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturthī runs from 04:52 on Tue 24 Jan to 07:02 on Wed 25 Jan.

    1939-01-23T20:52:22Z → 1939-01-24T23:02:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:28–19:20 on the 23rd, 17:29–19:21 on the 24th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturthī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 113 minutes on the 23rd and 112 of 112 on the 24th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 34333 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Tila Caturthī, Baoding, 1939: Tuesday 24 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Tila Caturthī 1939 falls on Tuesday 24 January. Caturthī runs from 04:52 on Tue 24 Jan to 07:02 on Wed 25 Jan and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1939/tila-chaturthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 24 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 24 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 24 Jan
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/tila-chaturthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Caturthī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 4 Tila caturthi and Kunda caturthi (pradosavyapini), Varada caturthi (Bengal & Orissa), Ganesa caturthi, Ganesa jayanti (madhyahnavyapini purvaviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturthīSunset 23rdCoveredSunset 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:52 → 15:0217:14110 min17:150 min23 Jan
Chicago14:52 → 17:0216:53114 min16:557 min23 Jan
Jersey City15:52 → 18:0217:02114 min17:0359 min23 Jan
Port of Spain16:52 → 19:0218:0699 min18:0755 min23 Jan
London20:52 → 23:0216:320 min16:34122 min24 Jan
Durban22:52 → 01:0218:590 min18:5883 min24 Jan
Dubai00:52 → 03:0217:560 min17:57105 min24 Jan
Delhi02:22 → 04:3217:520 min17:53107 min24 Jan
Kolkata02:22 → 04:3217:180 min17:19104 min24 Jan
Singapore04:12 → 06:2218:380 min18:3896 min24 Jan
Sydney06:52 → 09:0219:060 min19:0680 min24 Jan
Suva08:52 → 11:0218:480 min18:4888 min24 Jan
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
tila-chaturthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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