Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī · 1952

Tuesday 29 April

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 213 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 28 April

Pañcamī 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 29 April

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

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

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 16:13 on Mon 28 Apr to 17:57 on Tue 29 Apr.

    1952-04-28T08:13:10Z → 1952-04-29T09:57:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:52–12:40 on the 28th, 11:52–12:40 on the 29th.

    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 28th and 48 of 48 on the 29th.

    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 12792 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 1952: Tuesday 29 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī 1952 falls on Tuesday 29 April. Pañcamī runs from 16:13 on Mon 28 Apr to 17:57 on Tue 29 Apr and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1952/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 29 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 29 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 29 Apr
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/shankara-jayanti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 5 Sankara jayanti.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 28thCoveredMadhyāhna 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:13 → 02:5712:2748 min12:260 min28 Apr
Chicago03:13 → 04:5712:2448 min12:240 min28 Apr
Jersey City04:13 → 05:5712:3048 min12:300 min28 Apr
Port of Spain04:13 → 05:5711:4048 min11:390 min28 Apr
London09:13 → 10:5712:3548 min12:340 min28 Apr
Durban10:13 → 11:5711:2948 min11:2928 min28 Apr
Dubai12:13 → 13:5711:5227 min11:5248 min29 Apr
Delhi13:43 → 15:2711:550 min11:5548 min29 Apr
Kolkata13:43 → 15:2711:100 min11:1048 min29 Apr
Singapore15:43 → 17:2712:080 min12:0848 min29 Apr
Sydney18:13 → 19:5711:280 min11:2848 min29 Apr
Suva20:13 → 21:5711:400 min11:4048 min29 Apr
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shankara-jayanti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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