Ruling · Dattātreyotpatti (Datta Jayanti) · 1956

Monday 17 December

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 492 minutes.

Decide it for

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38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Sunday 16 December

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

16:57 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:54
16:3316:5717:2117:4518:0918:3318:5719:21

0 of 117 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 17 December

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

16:57 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:54
16:3316:5717:2117:4518:0918:3318:5719:21

117 of 117 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 05:52 on Mon 17 Dec to 03:06 on Tue 18 Dec.

    1956-12-16T21:52:23Z → 1956-12-17T19:06:19Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 16:57–18:54 on the 16th, 16:57–18:54 on the 17th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 117 minutes on the 16th and 117 of 117 on the 17th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 29539 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dattātreyotpatti, Baoding, 1956: Monday 17 December.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dattātreyotpatti (Datta Jayanti) 1956 falls on Monday 17 December. Pūrṇimā runs from 05:52 on Mon 17 Dec to 03:06 on Tue 18 Dec and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

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

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 17 Dec
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 17 Dec
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 17 Dec
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/dattatreyotpatti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Mārgaśīrṣa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 15 Dattatreyotpatti (pradosa).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 16thCoveredSunset 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles13:52 → 11:0616:45113 min16:460 min16 Dec
Chicago15:52 → 13:0616:21119 min16:210 min16 Dec
Jersey City16:52 → 14:0616:3095 min16:300 min16 Dec
Port of Spain17:52 → 15:0617:4795 min17:470 min16 Dec
London21:52 → 19:0615:510 min15:52129 min17 Dec
Durban23:52 → 21:0618:530 min18:5480 min17 Dec
Dubai01:52 → 23:0617:320 min17:32107 min17 Dec
Delhi03:22 → 00:3617:260 min17:27110 min17 Dec
Kolkata03:22 → 00:3616:550 min16:55106 min17 Dec
Singapore05:22 → 02:3618:320 min18:3296 min17 Dec
Sydney07:52 → 05:0619:020 min19:0377 min17 Dec
Suva09:52 → 07:0618:380 min18:3986 min17 Dec
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
dattatreyotpatti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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