Ruling · Dattātreyotpatti (Datta Jayanti) · 1987

Friday 4 December

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 55 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 Friday 4 December

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

16:56 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:51
16:3216:5617:2017:4418:0818:3218:5619:20

115 of 115 minutes covered

Evening of Saturday 5 December

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

16:56 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:51
16:3216:5617:2017:4418:0818:3218:5619:20

0 of 115 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 15:29 on Fri 4 Dec to 16:01 on Sat 5 Dec.

    1987-12-04T07:28:47Z → 1987-12-05T08:01:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 16:56–18:51 on the 4th, 16:56–18:51 on the 5th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 115 of 115 minutes on the 4th and 0 of 115 on the 5th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 3289 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dattātreyotpatti, Baoding, 1987: Friday 4 December.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dattātreyotpatti (Datta Jayanti) 1987 falls on Friday 4 December. Pūrṇimā runs from 15:29 on Fri 4 Dec to 16:01 on Sat 5 Dec and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1987/dattatreyotpatti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 4 Dec
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 4 Dec
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 4 Dec
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/dattatreyotpatti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Mārgaśīrṣa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 15 Dattatreyotpatti (pradosa).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 4thCoveredSunset 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:29 → 00:0116:43112 min16:430 min4 Dec
Chicago01:29 → 02:0116:20118 min16:190 min4 Dec
Jersey City02:29 → 03:0116:29117 min16:290 min4 Dec
Port of Spain03:29 → 04:0117:42100 min17:420 min4 Dec
London07:29 → 08:0115:53127 min15:530 min4 Dec
Durban09:29 → 10:0118:4480 min18:450 min4 Dec
Dubai11:29 → 12:0117:29107 min17:290 min4 Dec
Delhi12:59 → 13:3117:23109 min17:240 min4 Dec
Kolkata12:59 → 13:3116:51105 min16:510 min4 Dec
Singapore15:29 → 16:0118:5696 min18:560 min4 Dec
Sydney18:29 → 19:0119:5378 min19:540 min4 Dec
Suva19:29 → 20:0118:3129 min18:3187 min5 Dec
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
dattatreyotpatti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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