Ruling · Skanda Pañcamī · 1976

Friday 2 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 330 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 Thursday 1 July

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:58  12:46 madhyāhna ends
11:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:1013:34

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 2 July

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:58  12:46 madhyāhna ends
11:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:1013:34

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 19:51 on Thu 1 Jul to 18:16 on Fri 2 Jul.

    1976-07-01T11:51:00Z → 1976-07-02T10:16:20Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:58–12:46 on the 1st, 11:58–12:46 on the 2nd.

    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 1st and 48 of 48 on the 2nd.

    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: paraviddha → only-day · margin 19820 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Pañcamī, Baoding, 1976: Friday 2 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Skanda Pañcamī 1976 falls on Friday 2 July. Pañcamī runs from 19:51 on Thu 1 Jul to 18:16 on Fri 2 Jul and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1976/skanda-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 2 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 2 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 2 Jul
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-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 5 Skanda pancami (paraviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 1stCoveredMadhyāhna 2ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:51 → 03:1612:3348 min12:330 min1 Jul
Chicago06:51 → 05:1612:3048 min12:310 min1 Jul
Jersey City07:51 → 06:1612:3648 min12:360 min1 Jul
Port of Spain07:51 → 06:1611:4648 min11:460 min1 Jul
London12:51 → 11:1612:4037 min12:400 min1 Jul
Durban13:51 → 12:1611:360 min11:3640 min2 Jul
Dubai15:51 → 14:1611:590 min11:5948 min2 Jul
Delhi17:21 → 15:4612:010 min12:0148 min2 Jul
Kolkata17:21 → 15:4611:160 min11:1648 min2 Jul
Singapore19:21 → 17:4612:140 min12:1548 min2 Jul
Sydney21:51 → 20:1611:350 min11:3548 min2 Jul
Suva23:51 → 22:1611:460 min11:4648 min2 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
skanda-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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