Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 1968

Thursday 29 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 608 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 28 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:55  12:43 madhyāhna ends
11:0711:3111:5512:1912:4313:0713:31

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 29 August

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:55  12:43 madhyāhna ends
11:0711:3111:5512:1912:4313:0713:31

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 00:55 on Thu 29 Aug to 22:51 on Thu 29 Aug.

    1968-08-28T16:54:50Z → 1968-08-29T14:51:13Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:55–12:43 on the 28th, 11:55–12:43 on the 29th.

    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 28th and 48 of 48 on the 29th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 36507 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 1968: Thursday 29 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 1968 falls on Thursday 29 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 00:55 on Thu 29 Aug to 22:51 on Thu 29 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1968/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 29 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 29 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 29 Aug
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/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 6 Surya sasthi (paraviddha), Lolarka sasthi” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 28thCoveredMadhyāhna 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:55 → 07:5112:3048 min12:290 min28 Aug
Chicago11:55 → 09:5112:2748 min12:270 min28 Aug
Jersey City12:55 → 10:5112:3326 min12:330 min28 Aug
Port of Spain12:55 → 10:5111:430 min11:430 min29 Aug
London17:55 → 15:5112:370 min12:3748 min29 Aug
Durban18:55 → 16:5111:330 min11:3348 min29 Aug
Dubai20:55 → 18:5111:560 min11:5548 min29 Aug
Delhi22:25 → 20:2111:580 min11:5848 min29 Aug
Kolkata22:25 → 20:2111:140 min11:1348 min29 Aug
Singapore00:25 → 22:2112:120 min12:1248 min29 Aug
Sydney02:55 → 00:5111:330 min11:3248 min29 Aug
Suva04:55 → 02:5111:440 min11:4348 min29 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
surya-shashthi-bhadrapada@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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