Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 1978

Friday 8 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 559 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 Friday 8 September

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:52  12:40 madhyāhna ends
11:0411:2811:5212:1612:4013:0413:28

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 9 September

Ṣaṣṭhī 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

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 02:33 on Fri 8 Sep to 01:37 on Sat 9 Sep.

    1978-09-07T18:32:43Z → 1978-09-08T17:37:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:52–12:40 on the 8th, 11:51–12:39 on the 9th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Ṣaṣṭhī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 8th and 0 of 48 on the 9th.

    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 33539 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 1978: Friday 8 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 1978 falls on Friday 8 September. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 02:33 on Fri 8 Sep to 01:37 on Sat 9 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1978/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 8 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 8 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 8 Sep
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 7thCoveredMadhyāhna 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:33 → 10:3712:2748 min12:260 min7 Sep
Chicago13:33 → 12:3712:240 min12:2413 min8 Sep
Jersey City14:33 → 13:3712:300 min12:3048 min8 Sep
Port of Spain14:33 → 13:3711:400 min11:4048 min8 Sep
London19:33 → 18:3712:340 min12:3448 min8 Sep
Durban20:33 → 19:3711:300 min11:3048 min8 Sep
Dubai22:33 → 21:3711:530 min11:5248 min8 Sep
Delhi00:03 → 23:0711:550 min11:5548 min8 Sep
Kolkata00:03 → 23:0711:110 min11:1048 min8 Sep
Singapore02:03 → 01:0712:090 min12:0848 min8 Sep
Sydney04:33 → 03:3711:300 min11:2948 min8 Sep
Suva06:33 → 05:3711:410 min11:4048 min8 Sep
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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