Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) · 1979

Tuesday 1 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 345 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 Monday 30 April

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

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

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 1 May

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

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

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 18:25 on Mon 30 Apr to 19:24 on Tue 1 May.

    1979-04-30T10:25:03Z → 1979-05-01T11:23:49Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:52–12:40 on the 30th, 11:52–12:40 on the 1st.

    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 30th and 48 of 48 on the 1st.

    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 20717 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 1979: Tuesday 1 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) 1979 falls on Tuesday 1 May. Pañcamī runs from 18:25 on Mon 30 Apr to 19:24 on Tue 1 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1979/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 1 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 1 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 1 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/shankara-jayanti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 5 Sankara jayanti.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 30thCoveredMadhyāhna 1stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:25 → 04:2412:2648 min12:260 min30 Apr
Chicago05:25 → 06:2412:2448 min12:240 min30 Apr
Jersey City06:25 → 07:2412:3048 min12:300 min30 Apr
Port of Spain06:25 → 07:2411:3948 min11:390 min30 Apr
London11:25 → 12:2412:3448 min12:340 min30 Apr
Durban12:25 → 13:2411:290 min11:2948 min1 May
Dubai14:25 → 15:2411:520 min11:5248 min1 May
Delhi15:55 → 16:5411:550 min11:5448 min1 May
Kolkata15:55 → 16:5411:100 min11:1048 min1 May
Singapore17:55 → 18:5412:080 min12:0848 min1 May
Sydney20:25 → 21:2411:280 min11:2848 min1 May
Suva22:25 → 23:2411:400 min11:3948 min1 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shankara-jayanti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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