Ruling · Guru Pūrṇimā · 1982

Tuesday 6 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 13 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Monday 5 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:58  12:46 madhyāhna ends
Pūrṇimā begins 12:59:44
11:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:1013:34

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 6 July

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:59  12:47 madhyāhna ends
11:1111:3511:5912:2312:4713:1113:35

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 13:00 on Mon 5 Jul to 15:32 on Tue 6 Jul.

    1982-07-05T04:59:45Z → 1982-07-06T07:31:36Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:58–12:46 on the 5th, 11:59–12:47 on the 6th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 5th and 48 of 48 on the 6th.

    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: paraviddha → only-day · margin 799 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Guru Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1982: Tuesday 6 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Guru Pūrṇimā 1982 falls on Tuesday 6 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 13:00 on Mon 5 Jul to 15:32 on Tue 6 Jul and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1982/guru-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 6 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 6 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 6 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/guru-purnima · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
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.

PlacePūrṇimāMadhyāhna 5thCoveredMadhyāhna 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:00 → 00:3212:3348 min12:340 min5 Jul
Chicago00:00 → 02:3212:3148 min12:310 min5 Jul
Jersey City01:00 → 03:3212:3748 min12:370 min5 Jul
Port of Spain01:00 → 03:3211:4748 min11:470 min5 Jul
London06:00 → 08:3212:4148 min12:410 min5 Jul
Durban07:00 → 09:3211:3648 min11:370 min5 Jul
Dubai09:00 → 11:3211:5948 min11:590 min5 Jul
Delhi10:30 → 13:0212:0148 min12:0248 min6 Jul
Kolkata10:30 → 13:0211:1748 min11:1748 min6 Jul
Singapore13:00 → 15:3212:4533 min12:4548 min6 Jul
Sydney15:00 → 17:3211:360 min11:3648 min6 Jul
Suva17:00 → 19:3211:470 min11:4748 min6 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
guru-purnima@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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