Ruling · Tila Caturthī · 1960

Sunday 31 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 590 minutes.

Decide it for

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 31 January

Taken. The only evening Caturthī reaches.

17:37 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:27
17:1317:3718:0118:2518:4919:1319:3720:01

111 of 111 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 1 February

Caturthī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:38 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:28
17:1417:3818:0218:2618:5019:1419:3820:02

0 of 110 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturthī runs from 07:47 on Sun 31 Jan to 07:00 on Mon 1 Feb.

    1960-01-30T23:46:43Z → 1960-01-31T23:00:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:37–19:27 on the 31st, 17:38–19:28 on the 1st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturthī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 111 of 111 minutes on the 31st and 0 of 110 on the 1st.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 35396 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Tila Caturthī, Baoding, 1960: Sunday 31 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Tila Caturthī 1960 falls on Sunday 31 January. Caturthī runs from 07:47 on Sun 31 Jan to 07:00 on Mon 1 Feb and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1960/tila-chaturthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 31 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 31 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 31 Jan
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/tila-chaturthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Caturthī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 4 Tila caturthi and Kunda caturthi (pradosavyapini), Varada caturthi (Bengal & Orissa), Ganesa caturthi, Ganesa jayanti (madhyahnavyapini purvaviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturthīSunset 30thCoveredSunset 31stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:47 → 15:0017:21108 min17:220 min30 Jan
Chicago17:47 → 17:0017:0268 min17:030 min30 Jan
Jersey City18:47 → 18:0017:1015 min17:1149 min31 Jan
Port of Spain19:47 → 19:0018:091 min18:0951 min31 Jan
London23:47 → 23:0016:440 min16:46119 min31 Jan
Durban01:47 → 01:0018:550 min18:5584 min31 Jan
Dubai03:47 → 03:0018:010 min18:02104 min31 Jan
Delhi05:17 → 04:3017:580 min17:58106 min31 Jan
Kolkata05:17 → 04:3017:230 min17:23103 min31 Jan
Singapore07:17 → 06:3018:490 min18:5096 min31 Jan
Sydney09:47 → 09:0019:020 min19:0282 min31 Jan
Suva11:47 → 11:0018:470 min18:4789 min31 Jan
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
tila-chaturthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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