Ruling · Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī · 1979

Sunday 25 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 444 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 Saturday 24 November

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:40  12:28 madhyāhna ends
10:5211:1611:4012:0412:2812:5213:16

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 25 November

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:41  12:29 madhyāhna ends
10:5311:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:17

48 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 21:30 on Sat 24 Nov to 19:52 on Sun 25 Nov.

    1979-11-24T13:30:10Z → 1979-11-25T11:52:17Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:40–12:28 on the 24th, 11:41–12:29 on the 25th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Ṣaṣṭhī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 24th and 48 of 48 on the 25th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 26611 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 1979: Sunday 25 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī 1979 falls on Sunday 25 November. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 21:30 on Sat 24 Nov to 19:52 on Sun 25 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1979/skanda-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 25 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 25 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 25 Nov
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-shashthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Mārgaśīrṣa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 6 Campa sasthi (Maharashtra) (paraviddha). (Special when combined with naksatra Satabhisaj, yoga Vyatipata and Sunday), Skanda sasthi (purvaviddha), Guha sasthi” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 24thCoveredMadhyāhna 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:30 → 03:5211:1648 min11:160 min24 Nov
Chicago07:30 → 05:5211:1348 min11:130 min24 Nov
Jersey City08:30 → 06:5211:1948 min11:190 min24 Nov
Port of Spain09:30 → 07:5211:2948 min11:290 min24 Nov
London13:30 → 11:5211:230 min11:2329 min25 Nov
Durban15:30 → 13:5211:190 min11:1948 min25 Nov
Dubai17:30 → 15:5211:410 min11:4148 min25 Nov
Delhi19:00 → 17:2211:430 min11:4448 min25 Nov
Kolkata19:00 → 17:2210:590 min10:5948 min25 Nov
Singapore21:00 → 19:2211:570 min11:5748 min25 Nov
Sydney00:30 → 22:5212:180 min12:1848 min25 Nov
Suva01:30 → 23:5211:290 min11:2948 min25 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
skanda-shashthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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