Ruling · Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī · 1942

Sunday 13 December

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 175 minutes.

Decide it for

BaodingDelhiKolkataSingaporeSydneyJersey City

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 Saturday 12 December

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:48  13:36 madhyāhna ends
12:0012:2412:4813:1213:3614:0014:24

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 13 December

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:48  13:36 madhyāhna ends
12:0012:2412:4813:1213:3614:0014:24

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 18:30 on Sat 12 Dec to 16:31 on Sun 13 Dec.

    1942-12-12T09:29:36Z → 1942-12-13T07:30:59Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:48–13:36 on the 12th, 12:48–13:36 on the 13th.

    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 12th and 48 of 48 on the 13th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 10500 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 1942: Sunday 13 December.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī 1942 falls on Sunday 13 December. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 18:30 on Sat 12 Dec to 16:31 on Sun 13 Dec and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1942/skanda-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 13 Dec
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 13 Dec
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 13 Dec
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/skanda-shashthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Mārgaśīrṣa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 6 Campa sasthi (Maharashtra) (paraviddha). (Special when combined with naksatra Satabhisaj, yoga Vyatipata and Sunday), Skanda sasthi (purvaviddha), Guha sasthi” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 12thCoveredMadhyāhna 13thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:30 → 00:3112:2348 min12:230 min12 Dec
Chicago04:30 → 02:3112:2048 min12:210 min12 Dec
Jersey City05:30 → 03:3112:2648 min12:260 min12 Dec
Port of Spain06:30 → 04:3112:3648 min12:360 min12 Dec
London10:30 → 08:3112:3048 min12:300 min12 Dec
Durban12:30 → 10:3112:2544 min12:260 min12 Dec
Dubai13:30 → 11:3111:480 min11:490 min13 Dec
Delhi16:00 → 14:0112:500 min12:5148 min13 Dec
Kolkata16:00 → 14:0112:060 min12:0648 min13 Dec
Singapore18:30 → 16:3113:340 min13:3448 min13 Dec
Sydney20:30 → 18:3112:250 min12:2548 min13 Dec
Suva21:30 → 19:3111:360 min11:3648 min13 Dec
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
skanda-shashthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

About Ahargaṇa