Ruling · Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vaiśākhī Pūrṇimā) · 1976

Thursday 13 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 258 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 Thursday 13 May

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 14 May

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 07:33 on Thu 13 May to 04:04 on Fri 14 May.

    1976-05-12T23:33:03Z → 1976-05-13T20:04:02Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 13th, 11:51–12:39 on the 14th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 13th and 0 of 48 on the 14th.

    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 15460 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Buddha Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1976: Thursday 13 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vesak) 1976 falls on Thursday 13 May. Pūrṇimā runs from 07:33 on Thu 13 May to 04:04 on Fri 14 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1976/buddha-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 13 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 13 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 13 May
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/buddha-purnima · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Sampat gauri vrata (paraviddha), Phuladola (Bengal & Orissa) (paraviddha), Gandhesvari puja (Bengal) (purvaviddha), Buddha purnima, Vaisakhi purnima.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāMadhyāhna 12thCoveredMadhyāhna 13thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:33 → 13:0412:250 min12:2539 min13 May
Chicago18:33 → 15:0412:230 min12:2348 min13 May
Jersey City19:33 → 16:0412:290 min12:2948 min13 May
Port of Spain19:33 → 16:0411:380 min11:3848 min13 May
London00:33 → 21:0412:330 min12:3348 min13 May
Durban01:33 → 22:0411:280 min11:2848 min13 May
Dubai03:33 → 00:0411:510 min11:5148 min13 May
Delhi05:03 → 01:3411:540 min11:5448 min13 May
Kolkata05:03 → 01:3411:090 min11:0948 min13 May
Singapore07:03 → 03:3412:070 min12:0748 min13 May
Sydney09:33 → 06:0411:270 min11:2748 min13 May
Suva11:33 → 08:0411:390 min11:3948 min13 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
buddha-purnima@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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