Ruling · Skanda Pañcamī · 1948

Sunday 11 July

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 1 min 29 s away. Say “contested”.

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 Saturday 10 July

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

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

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 11 July

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:59  13:47 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī ends 13:45:48
12:1112:3512:5913:2313:4714:1114:35

47 of 48 minutes covered, the first 47

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 16:42 on Sat 10 Jul to 13:46 on Sun 11 Jul.

    1948-07-10T07:41:47Z → 1948-07-11T04:45:49Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:59–13:47 on the 10th, 12:59–13:47 on the 11th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 10th and 47 of 48 on the 11th.

    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 89 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Pañcamī, Baoding, 1948: Sunday 11 July.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Skanda Pañcamī 1948 falls on Sunday 11 July. Pañcamī runs from 16:42 on Sat 10 Jul to 13:46 on Sun 11 Jul and covers 47 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday. It is 1 min 29 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1948/skanda-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 11 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 11 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 11 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/skanda-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 5 Skanda pancami (paraviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 10thCoveredMadhyāhna 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:42 → 21:4612:3448 min12:340 min10 Jul
Chicago02:42 → 23:4612:3248 min12:320 min10 Jul
Jersey City03:42 → 00:4612:3748 min12:380 min10 Jul
Port of Spain03:42 → 00:4611:4748 min11:470 min10 Jul
London08:42 → 05:4612:4148 min12:420 min10 Jul
Durban09:42 → 06:4611:3748 min11:370 min10 Jul
Dubai11:42 → 08:4612:0048 min12:000 min10 Jul
Delhi13:12 → 10:1612:020 min12:020 min11 Jul
Kolkata13:12 → 10:1611:180 min11:180 min11 Jul
Singapore15:12 → 12:1612:160 min12:160 min11 Jul
Sydney17:42 → 14:4611:360 min11:3748 min11 Jul
Suva19:42 → 16:4611:470 min11:4848 min11 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
skanda-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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