Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Chhath) · 1995

Sunday 29 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 485 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 Saturday 28 October

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 Sunday 29 October

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

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

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 23:03 on Sat 28 Oct to 20:30 on Sun 29 Oct.

    1995-10-28T15:02:36Z → 1995-10-29T12:30:27Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 28th, 11:38–12:26 on the 29th.

    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 28th and 48 of 48 on the 29th.

    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 29086 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 1995: Sunday 29 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Chhath) 1995 falls on Sunday 29 October. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 23:03 on Sat 28 Oct to 20:30 on Sun 29 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1995/surya-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 29 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 29 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 29 Oct
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 28thCoveredMadhyāhna 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:03 → 04:3012:1348 min11:130 min28 Oct
Chicago10:03 → 06:3012:1048 min11:100 min28 Oct
Jersey City11:03 → 07:3012:1648 min11:160 min28 Oct
Port of Spain11:03 → 08:3011:2648 min11:260 min28 Oct
London15:03 → 12:3011:200 min11:2048 min29 Oct
Durban17:03 → 14:3011:160 min11:1648 min29 Oct
Dubai19:03 → 16:3011:380 min11:3848 min29 Oct
Delhi20:33 → 18:0011:410 min11:4148 min29 Oct
Kolkata20:33 → 18:0010:560 min10:5648 min29 Oct
Singapore23:03 → 20:3012:240 min12:2448 min29 Oct
Sydney01:03 → 23:3011:150 min12:1548 min29 Oct
Suva03:03 → 00:3011:260 min11:2648 min29 Oct
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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