Ruling · Śītalā Saptamī · 1995

Thursday 17 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 460 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 Wednesday 16 August

Saptamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

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

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 17 August

Taken. The only midday Saptamī reaches.

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

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 20:26 on Wed 16 Aug to 22:03 on Thu 17 Aug.

    1995-08-16T12:25:45Z → 1995-08-17T14:02:55Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:58–12:46 on the 16th, 11:58–12:46 on the 17th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 16th and 48 of 48 on the 17th.

    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: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 27571 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śītalā Saptamī, Baoding, 1995: Thursday 17 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śītalā Saptamī 1995 falls on Thursday 17 August. Saptamī runs from 20:26 on Wed 16 Aug to 22:03 on Thu 17 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1995/shitala-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 17 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 17 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 17 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/shitala-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Saptamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 7 Sitala saptami (purvaviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīMadhyāhna 16thCoveredMadhyāhna 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:26 → 07:0312:3348 min12:330 min16 Aug
Chicago07:26 → 09:0312:3148 min12:300 min16 Aug
Jersey City08:26 → 10:0312:3648 min12:360 min16 Aug
Port of Spain08:26 → 10:0311:4648 min11:460 min16 Aug
London13:26 → 15:0312:403 min12:4048 min16 Aug
Durban14:26 → 16:0311:360 min11:3648 min17 Aug
Dubai16:26 → 18:0311:590 min11:5948 min17 Aug
Delhi17:56 → 19:3312:010 min12:0148 min17 Aug
Kolkata17:56 → 19:3311:170 min11:1748 min17 Aug
Singapore20:26 → 22:0312:450 min12:4548 min17 Aug
Sydney22:26 → 00:0311:360 min11:3648 min17 Aug
Suva00:26 → 02:0311:470 min11:4748 min17 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shitala-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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