Ruling · Buddha Pūrṇimā · 1950

Tuesday 2 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 40 minutes.

Decide it for

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 1 May

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:52  12:40 madhyāhna ends
11:0411:2811:5212:1612:4013:0413:28

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 2 May

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
Pūrṇimā ends 13:19:29
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 17:08 on Mon 1 May to 13:19 on Tue 2 May.

    1950-05-01T09:08:11Z → 1950-05-02T05:19:29Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:52–12:40 on the 1st, 11:51–12:39 on the 2nd.

    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 1st and 48 of 48 on the 2nd.

    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: unstated → only-day · margin 2400 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Buddha Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1950: Tuesday 2 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Buddha Pūrṇimā 1950 falls on Tuesday 2 May. Pūrṇimā runs from 17:08 on Mon 1 May to 13:19 on Tue 2 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1950/buddha-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 2 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 2 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 2 May
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/buddha-purnima · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Sampat gauri vrata (paraviddha), Phuladola (Bengal & Orissa) (paraviddha), Gandhesvari puja (Bengal) (purvaviddha), Buddha purnima, Vaisakhi purnima.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāMadhyāhna 1stCoveredMadhyāhna 2ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:08 → 22:1912:2648 min12:260 min1 May
Chicago04:08 → 00:1912:2448 min12:240 min1 May
Jersey City05:08 → 01:1912:3048 min12:300 min1 May
Port of Spain05:08 → 01:1911:3948 min11:390 min1 May
London10:08 → 06:1912:3448 min12:340 min1 May
Durban11:08 → 07:1911:2948 min11:290 min1 May
Dubai13:08 → 09:1911:520 min11:520 min2 May
Delhi14:38 → 10:4911:540 min11:540 min2 May
Kolkata14:38 → 10:4911:100 min11:100 min2 May
Singapore16:38 → 12:4912:080 min12:0842 min2 May
Sydney19:08 → 15:1911:280 min11:2848 min2 May
Suva21:08 → 17:1911:390 min11:3948 min2 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
buddha-purnima@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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