Ruling · Śītalā Saptamī · 1949

Tuesday 16 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 175 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 Monday 15 August

Saptamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:58  12:46 madhyāhna ends
11:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:1013:34

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 16 August

Taken. The only midday Saptamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:58  12:46 madhyāhna ends
11:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:1013:34

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 15:41 on Mon 15 Aug to 18:00 on Tue 16 Aug.

    1949-08-15T07:41:20Z → 1949-08-16T09:59:46Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:58–12:46 on the 15th, 11:58–12:46 on the 16th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 15th and 48 of 48 on the 16th.

    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: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 10501 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śītalā Saptamī, Baoding, 1949: Tuesday 16 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śītalā Saptamī 1949 falls on Tuesday 16 August. Saptamī runs from 15:41 on Mon 15 Aug to 18:00 on Tue 16 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1949/shitala-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 16 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 16 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 16 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/shitala-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Saptamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 7 Sitala saptami (purvaviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīMadhyāhna 15thCoveredMadhyāhna 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:41 → 02:0011:3348 min11:330 min15 Aug
Chicago02:41 → 05:0012:3148 min12:300 min15 Aug
Jersey City03:41 → 06:0012:3648 min12:360 min15 Aug
Port of Spain03:41 → 06:0011:4648 min11:460 min15 Aug
London08:41 → 11:0012:4048 min12:400 min15 Aug
Durban09:41 → 12:0011:3648 min11:3623 min15 Aug
Dubai11:41 → 14:0011:5948 min11:5948 min15 Aug
Delhi13:11 → 15:3012:010 min12:0148 min16 Aug
Kolkata13:11 → 15:3011:170 min11:1748 min16 Aug
Singapore15:11 → 17:3012:150 min12:1548 min16 Aug
Sydney17:41 → 20:0011:360 min11:3648 min16 Aug
Suva19:41 → 22:0011:470 min11:4748 min16 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shitala-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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