Ruling · Guru Pūrṇimā · 1944

Thursday 6 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 20 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 5 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:58  13:46 madhyāhna ends
12:1012:3412:5813:2213:4614:1014:34

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 6 July

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:59  13:47 madhyāhna ends
Pūrṇimā ends 13:26:39
12:1112:3512:5913:2313:4714:1114:35

28 of 48 minutes covered, the first 28

Pūrṇimā presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 15:34 on Wed 5 Jul to 13:27 on Thu 6 Jul.

    1944-07-05T06:34:14Z → 1944-07-06T04:26:40Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:58–13:46 on the 5th, 12:59–13:47 on the 6th.

    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 5th and 28 of 48 on the 6th.

    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 1193 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Guru Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1944: Thursday 6 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Guru Pūrṇimā 1944 falls on Thursday 6 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 15:34 on Wed 5 Jul to 13:27 on Thu 6 Jul and covers 28 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1944/guru-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 6 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 6 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 6 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 5thCoveredMadhyāhna 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:34 → 21:2712:3348 min12:330 min5 Jul
Chicago01:34 → 23:2712:3148 min12:310 min5 Jul
Jersey City02:34 → 00:2712:3748 min12:370 min5 Jul
Port of Spain03:34 → 01:2712:4648 min12:470 min5 Jul
London08:34 → 06:2713:4148 min13:410 min5 Jul
Durban08:34 → 06:2711:3648 min11:370 min5 Jul
Dubai10:34 → 08:2711:5948 min11:590 min5 Jul
Delhi13:04 → 10:5713:0145 min13:020 min5 Jul
Kolkata13:04 → 10:5712:171 min12:170 min5 Jul
Singapore15:34 → 13:2713:450 min13:450 min6 Jul
Sydney16:34 → 14:2711:360 min11:3648 min6 Jul
Suva18:34 → 16:2711:470 min11:4748 min6 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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