Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī · 1958

Thursday 24 April

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 334 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 Wednesday 23 April

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:53  12:41 madhyāhna ends
11:0511:2911:5312:1712:4113:0513:29

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 24 April

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:53  12:41 madhyāhna ends
11:0511:2911:5312:1712:4113:0513:29

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 18:15 on Wed 23 Apr to 18:49 on Thu 24 Apr.

    1958-04-23T10:15:11Z → 1958-04-24T10:48:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:53–12:41 on the 23rd, 11:53–12:41 on the 24th.

    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 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 20056 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 1958: Thursday 24 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī 1958 falls on Thursday 24 April. Pañcamī runs from 18:15 on Wed 23 Apr to 18:49 on Thu 24 Apr and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1958/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 24 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 24 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 24 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 23rdCoveredMadhyāhna 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:15 → 02:4911:2848 min11:270 min23 Apr
Chicago04:15 → 04:4911:2548 min11:250 min23 Apr
Jersey City05:15 → 05:4911:3148 min11:310 min23 Apr
Port of Spain06:15 → 06:4911:4048 min11:400 min23 Apr
London11:15 → 11:4912:3548 min12:350 min23 Apr
Durban12:15 → 12:4911:303 min11:3048 min24 Apr
Dubai14:15 → 14:4911:530 min11:5348 min24 Apr
Delhi15:45 → 16:1911:560 min11:5648 min24 Apr
Kolkata15:45 → 16:1911:110 min11:1148 min24 Apr
Singapore17:45 → 18:1912:090 min12:0948 min24 Apr
Sydney20:15 → 20:4911:290 min11:2948 min24 Apr
Suva22:15 → 22:4911:410 min11:4048 min24 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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