Ruling · Hala Ṣaṣṭhī · 1990

Sunday 12 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 144 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 Saturday 11 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:59  13:47 madhyāhna ends
12:1112:3512:5913:2313:4714:1114:35

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 12 August

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:59  13:47 madhyāhna ends
12:1112:3512:5913:2313:4714:1114:35

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 18:09 on Sat 11 Aug to 16:11 on Sun 12 Aug.

    1990-08-11T09:09:09Z → 1990-08-12T07:10:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:59–13:47 on the 11th, 12:59–13:47 on the 12th.

    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 11th and 48 of 48 on the 12th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 8624 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Hala Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 1990: Sunday 12 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Hala Ṣaṣṭhī 1990 falls on Sunday 12 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 18:09 on Sat 11 Aug to 16:11 on Sun 12 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1990/hala-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 12 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 12 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 12 Aug
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/hala-shashthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 6 Hala sasthi (paraviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 11thCoveredMadhyāhna 12thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:09 → 00:1112:3448 min12:340 min11 Aug
Chicago04:09 → 02:1112:3148 min12:310 min11 Aug
Jersey City05:09 → 03:1112:3748 min12:370 min11 Aug
Port of Spain05:09 → 03:1111:4748 min11:470 min11 Aug
London10:09 → 08:1112:4148 min12:410 min11 Aug
Durban11:09 → 09:1111:3748 min11:370 min11 Aug
Dubai13:09 → 11:1112:000 min12:000 min12 Aug
Delhi14:39 → 12:4112:020 min12:0239 min12 Aug
Kolkata14:39 → 12:4111:180 min11:1748 min12 Aug
Singapore17:09 → 15:1112:460 min12:4648 min12 Aug
Sydney19:09 → 17:1111:370 min11:3648 min12 Aug
Suva21:09 → 19:1111:480 min11:4848 min12 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
hala-shashthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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