Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Chhath) · 1988

Tuesday 15 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 452 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 14 November

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 15 November

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

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 21:12 on Mon 14 Nov to 19:58 on Tue 15 Nov.

    1988-11-14T13:12:20Z → 1988-11-15T11:58:16Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 14th, 11:39–12:27 on the 15th.

    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 14th and 48 of 48 on the 15th.

    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: unstated → only-day · margin 27101 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 1988: Tuesday 15 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Chhath) 1988 falls on Tuesday 15 November. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 21:12 on Mon 14 Nov to 19:58 on Tue 15 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1988/surya-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 15 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 15 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 15 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/surya-shashthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 6 Nadi sasthi, Skanda sasthi (Madras), Surya sasthi, Chhat (Bihar).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 14thCoveredMadhyāhna 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:12 → 03:5811:1348 min11:140 min14 Nov
Chicago07:12 → 05:5811:1148 min11:110 min14 Nov
Jersey City08:12 → 06:5811:1748 min11:170 min14 Nov
Port of Spain09:12 → 07:5811:2748 min11:270 min14 Nov
London13:12 → 11:5811:210 min11:2137 min15 Nov
Durban15:12 → 13:5811:170 min11:1748 min15 Nov
Dubai17:12 → 15:5811:390 min11:3948 min15 Nov
Delhi18:42 → 17:2811:410 min11:4248 min15 Nov
Kolkata18:42 → 17:2810:570 min10:5748 min15 Nov
Singapore21:12 → 19:5812:250 min12:2548 min15 Nov
Sydney00:12 → 22:5812:160 min12:1648 min15 Nov
Suva01:12 → 23:5811:270 min11:2748 min15 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
surya-shashthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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