Ruling · Tila Caturthī · 1980

Monday 21 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 27 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 Sunday 20 January

Caturthī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:24 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:17
17:0017:2417:4818:1218:3619:0019:2419:48

0 of 113 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 21 January

Taken. The only evening Caturthī reaches.

17:25 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:18
Caturthī ends 17:52:03
17:0117:2517:4918:1318:3719:0119:2519:49

27 of 113 minutes covered, the first 27

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturthī runs from 20:43 on Sun 20 Jan to 17:52 on Mon 21 Jan.

    1980-01-20T12:43:16Z → 1980-01-21T09:52:04Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:24–19:17 on the 20th, 17:25–19:18 on the 21st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturthī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 113 minutes on the 20th and 27 of 113 on the 21st.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 1606 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Tila Caturthī, Baoding, 1980: Monday 21 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Tila Caturthī 1980 falls on Monday 21 January. Caturthī runs from 20:43 on Sun 20 Jan to 17:52 on Mon 21 Jan and covers 27 of 113 minutes of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1980/tila-chaturthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 21 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 21 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 21 Jan
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/tila-chaturthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Caturthī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 4 Tila caturthi and Kunda caturthi (pradosavyapini), Varada caturthi (Bengal & Orissa), Ganesa caturthi, Ganesa jayanti (madhyahnavyapini purvaviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturthīSunset 20thCoveredSunset 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:43 → 01:5217:11110 min17:120 min20 Jan
Chicago06:43 → 03:5216:50115 min16:510 min20 Jan
Jersey City07:43 → 04:5216:58114 min16:590 min20 Jan
Port of Spain08:43 → 05:5218:0599 min18:050 min20 Jan
London12:43 → 09:5216:27124 min16:290 min20 Jan
Durban14:43 → 11:5218:5982 min18:590 min20 Jan
Dubai16:43 → 13:5217:54106 min17:540 min20 Jan
Delhi18:13 → 15:2217:4983 min17:500 min20 Jan
Kolkata18:13 → 15:2217:1647 min17:160 min20 Jan
Singapore20:13 → 17:2218:479 min18:470 min20 Jan
Sydney23:43 → 20:5220:080 min20:0745 min21 Jan
Suva00:43 → 21:5218:480 min18:4888 min21 Jan
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
tila-chaturthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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