Ruling · Śiva Śayanotsava · 1944

Wednesday 5 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 312 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 Wednesday 5 July

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

20:46 sunsetpradoṣa ends 22:00
20:2220:4621:1021:3421:5822:2222:46

74 of 74 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 6 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

20:46 sunsetpradoṣa ends 22:00
20:2220:4621:1021:3421:5822:2222:46

0 of 74 minutes covered

Pūrṇimā presentPradoṣa, 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

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 20:46–22:00 on the 5th, 20:46–22:00 on the 6th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 74 of 74 minutes on the 5th and 0 of 74 on the 6th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 18727 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śiva Śayanotsava, Baoding, 1944: Wednesday 5 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śiva Śayanotsava 1944 falls on Wednesday 5 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 15:34 on Wed 5 Jul to 13:27 on Thu 6 Jul and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1944/shiva-shayanotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 5 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 5 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 5 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/shiva-shayanotsava · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
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.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 5thCoveredSunset 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:34 → 21:2720:0877 min20:070 min5 Jul
Chicago01:34 → 23:2720:2871 min20:280 min5 Jul
Jersey City02:34 → 00:2720:3072 min20:300 min5 Jul
Port of Spain03:34 → 01:2719:3290 min19:320 min5 Jul
London08:34 → 06:2722:1960 min22:180 min5 Jul
Durban08:34 → 06:2717:09110 min17:090 min5 Jul
Dubai10:34 → 08:2719:1283 min19:120 min5 Jul
Delhi13:04 → 10:5720:2381 min20:220 min5 Jul
Kolkata13:04 → 10:5719:2584 min19:250 min5 Jul
Singapore15:34 → 13:2720:1595 min20:150 min5 Jul
Sydney16:34 → 14:2716:58112 min16:590 min5 Jul
Suva18:34 → 16:2717:4352 min17:430 min5 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shiva-shayanotsava@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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