Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 1990

Sunday 26 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 563 minutes.

Decide it for

BaodingDelhiKolkataSingaporeSydneyJersey City

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 Saturday 25 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:56  13:44 madhyāhna ends
12:0812:3212:5613:2013:4414:0814:32

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 26 August

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:56  13:44 madhyāhna ends
12:0812:3212:5613:2013:4414:0814:32

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 23:07 on Sat 25 Aug to 01:04 on Mon 27 Aug.

    1990-08-25T14:06:54Z → 1990-08-26T16:04:28Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:56–13:44 on the 25th, 12:56–13:44 on the 26th.

    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 25th and 48 of 48 on the 26th.

    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 33771 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 1990: Sunday 26 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 1990 falls on Sunday 26 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 23:07 on Sat 25 Aug to 01:04 on Mon 27 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

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

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 26 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 26 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 26 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/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

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

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 25thCoveredMadhyāhna 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:07 → 09:0412:3148 min12:300 min25 Aug
Chicago09:07 → 11:0412:2848 min12:280 min25 Aug
Jersey City10:07 → 12:0412:3448 min12:340 min25 Aug
Port of Spain10:07 → 12:0411:4448 min11:4421 min26 Aug
London15:07 → 17:0412:380 min12:3848 min26 Aug
Durban16:07 → 18:0411:340 min11:3448 min26 Aug
Dubai18:07 → 20:0411:570 min11:5648 min26 Aug
Delhi19:37 → 21:3411:590 min11:5948 min26 Aug
Kolkata19:37 → 21:3411:150 min11:1448 min26 Aug
Singapore22:07 → 00:0412:430 min12:4348 min26 Aug
Sydney00:07 → 02:0411:340 min11:3348 min26 Aug
Suva02:07 → 04:0411:450 min11:4448 min26 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
surya-shashthi-bhadrapada@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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