Ruling · Hala Ṣaṣṭhī · 1940

Saturday 24 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 347 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 Friday 23 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:56  13:44 madhyāhna ends
12:0812:3212:5613:2013:4414:0814:32

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 24 August

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:56  13:44 madhyāhna ends
12:0812:3212:5613:2013:4414:0814:32

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 19:32 on Fri 23 Aug to 21:54 on Sat 24 Aug.

    1940-08-23T10:31:49Z → 1940-08-24T12:53:54Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:56–13:44 on the 23rd, 12:56–13:44 on the 24th.

    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 23rd and 48 of 48 on the 24th.

    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 20842 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Hala Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 1940: Saturday 24 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Hala Ṣaṣṭhī 1940 falls on Saturday 24 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 19:32 on Fri 23 Aug to 21:54 on Sat 24 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1940/hala-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 24 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 24 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 24 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 23rdCoveredMadhyāhna 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:32 → 04:5411:3148 min11:310 min23 Aug
Chicago05:32 → 07:5412:2948 min12:280 min23 Aug
Jersey City06:32 → 08:5412:3448 min12:340 min23 Aug
Port of Spain06:32 → 08:5411:4548 min11:440 min23 Aug
London11:32 → 13:5412:3948 min12:3848 min24 Aug
Durban12:32 → 14:5411:350 min11:3448 min24 Aug
Dubai14:32 → 16:5411:570 min11:5748 min24 Aug
Delhi16:02 → 18:2411:590 min11:5948 min24 Aug
Kolkata16:02 → 18:2411:150 min11:1548 min24 Aug
Singapore17:52 → 20:1412:030 min12:0348 min24 Aug
Sydney20:32 → 22:5411:340 min11:3448 min24 Aug
Suva22:32 → 00:5411:450 min11:4548 min24 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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