Ruling · Śiva Śayanotsava · 1978

Wednesday 19 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 279 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 Wednesday 19 July

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

19:40 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:56
19:1619:4020:0420:2820:5221:1621:40

76 of 76 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 20 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:40 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:56
19:1619:4020:0420:2820:5221:1621:40

0 of 76 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 15:02 on Wed 19 Jul to 11:05 on Thu 20 Jul.

    1978-07-19T07:01:44Z → 1978-07-20T03:04:49Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:40–20:56 on the 19th, 19:40–20:56 on the 20th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 76 of 76 minutes on the 19th and 0 of 76 on the 20th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 16723 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śiva Śayanotsava, Baoding, 1978: Wednesday 19 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śiva Śayanotsava 1978 falls on Wednesday 19 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 15:02 on Wed 19 Jul to 11:05 on Thu 20 Jul and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1978/shiva-shayanotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 19 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 19 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 19 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/shiva-shayanotsava · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 15 Guru purnima (paraviddha), Vyasa puja (paraviddha, 3 muhurtas after sunrise), Kokila vrata (sayahna vyapini). Siva sayanotsava (pradosavyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 19thCoveredSunset 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:02 → 20:0520:032 min20:020 min19 Jul
Chicago02:02 → 22:0520:2174 min20:200 min19 Jul
Jersey City03:02 → 23:0520:2374 min20:230 min19 Jul
Port of Spain03:02 → 23:0518:3291 min18:320 min19 Jul
London08:02 → 04:0521:0764 min21:060 min19 Jul
Durban09:02 → 05:0517:16108 min17:160 min19 Jul
Dubai11:02 → 07:0519:1084 min19:090 min19 Jul
Delhi12:32 → 08:3519:1982 min19:190 min19 Jul
Kolkata12:32 → 08:3518:2385 min18:230 min19 Jul
Singapore14:32 → 10:3518:4695 min18:460 min19 Jul
Sydney17:02 → 13:0517:06111 min17:070 min19 Jul
Suva19:02 → 15:0517:4728 min17:480 min19 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shiva-shayanotsava@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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