Ruling · Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vaiśākhī Pūrṇimā) · 1956

Thursday 24 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 572 minutes.

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 Wednesday 23 May

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 24 May

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
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 22:11 on Wed 23 May to 23:26 on Thu 24 May.

    1956-05-23T14:10:54Z → 1956-05-24T15:25:50Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 23rd, 11:51–12:39 on the 24th.

    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 23rd and 48 of 48 on the 24th.

    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 34315 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Buddha Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1956: Thursday 24 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vesak) 1956 falls on Thursday 24 May. Pūrṇimā runs from 22:11 on Wed 23 May to 23:26 on Thu 24 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1956/buddha-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 24 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 24 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 24 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 23rdCoveredMadhyāhna 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:11 → 08:2612:2648 min12:260 min23 May
Chicago09:11 → 10:2612:2448 min12:240 min23 May
Jersey City10:11 → 11:2612:2948 min12:290 min23 May
Port of Spain10:11 → 11:2611:3948 min11:390 min23 May
London15:11 → 16:2612:340 min12:3448 min24 May
Durban16:11 → 17:2611:280 min11:2848 min24 May
Dubai18:11 → 19:2611:520 min11:5248 min24 May
Delhi19:41 → 20:5611:540 min11:5448 min24 May
Kolkata19:41 → 20:5611:090 min11:0948 min24 May
Singapore21:41 → 22:5612:070 min12:0748 min24 May
Sydney00:11 → 01:2611:280 min11:2848 min24 May
Suva02:11 → 03:2611:390 min11:3948 min24 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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