Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) · 1955

Tuesday 26 April

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 258 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 Tuesday 26 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

Midday of Wednesday 27 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

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 07:35 on Tue 26 Apr to 04:52 on Wed 27 Apr.

    1955-04-25T23:34:39Z → 1955-04-26T20:52:26Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:52–12:40 on the 26th, 11:52–12:40 on the 27th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 26th and 0 of 48 on the 27th.

    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 15466 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 1955: Tuesday 26 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) 1955 falls on Tuesday 26 April. Pañcamī runs from 07:35 on Tue 26 Apr to 04:52 on Wed 27 Apr and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1955/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 26 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 26 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 26 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 25thCoveredMadhyāhna 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:35 → 13:5212:270 min12:2748 min26 Apr
Chicago18:35 → 15:5212:250 min12:2548 min26 Apr
Jersey City19:35 → 16:5212:310 min12:3148 min26 Apr
Port of Spain19:35 → 16:5211:400 min11:4048 min26 Apr
London00:35 → 21:5212:350 min12:3548 min26 Apr
Durban01:35 → 22:5211:300 min11:3048 min26 Apr
Dubai03:35 → 00:5211:530 min11:5348 min26 Apr
Delhi05:05 → 02:2211:550 min11:5548 min26 Apr
Kolkata05:05 → 02:2211:110 min11:1148 min26 Apr
Singapore07:05 → 04:2212:090 min12:0948 min26 Apr
Sydney09:35 → 06:5211:290 min11:2948 min26 Apr
Suva11:35 → 08:5211:400 min11:4048 min26 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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