Ruling · Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī · 1959

Saturday 5 December

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 621 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 Friday 4 December

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:44  12:32 madhyāhna ends
10:5611:2011:4412:0812:3212:5613:20

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 5 December

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:44  12:32 madhyāhna ends
10:5611:2011:4412:0812:3212:5613:20

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 00:24 on Sat 5 Dec to 22:54 on Sat 5 Dec.

    1959-12-04T16:24:07Z → 1959-12-05T14:53:36Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:44–12:32 on the 4th, 11:44–12:32 on the 5th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Ṣaṣṭhī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 4th and 48 of 48 on the 5th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 37275 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 1959: Saturday 5 December.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī 1959 falls on Saturday 5 December. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 00:24 on Sat 5 Dec to 22:54 on Sat 5 Dec and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1959/skanda-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 5 Dec
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 5 Dec
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 5 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/skanda-shashthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Mārgaśīrṣa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 6 Campa sasthi (Maharashtra) (paraviddha). (Special when combined with naksatra Satabhisaj, yoga Vyatipata and Sunday), Skanda sasthi (purvaviddha), Guha sasthi” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 4thCoveredMadhyāhna 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:24 → 06:5411:1948 min11:190 min4 Dec
Chicago10:24 → 08:5411:1748 min11:170 min4 Dec
Jersey City11:24 → 09:5411:2246 min11:230 min4 Dec
Port of Spain12:24 → 10:5411:320 min11:330 min5 Dec
London16:24 → 14:5411:260 min11:2748 min5 Dec
Durban18:24 → 16:5411:220 min11:2248 min5 Dec
Dubai20:24 → 18:5411:450 min11:4548 min5 Dec
Delhi21:54 → 20:2411:470 min11:4748 min5 Dec
Kolkata21:54 → 20:2411:020 min11:0348 min5 Dec
Singapore23:54 → 22:2412:000 min12:0148 min5 Dec
Sydney02:24 → 00:5411:210 min11:2248 min5 Dec
Suva04:24 → 02:5411:320 min11:3348 min5 Dec
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
skanda-shashthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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