Ruling · Hala Ṣaṣṭhī · 1998

Thursday 13 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 390 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 Wednesday 12 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:59  12:47 madhyāhna ends
11:1111:3511:5912:2312:4713:1113:35

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 13 August

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:59  12:47 madhyāhna ends
11:1111:3511:5912:2312:4713:1113:35

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 21:49 on Wed 12 Aug to 19:16 on Thu 13 Aug.

    1998-08-12T13:48:59Z → 1998-08-13T11:16:29Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

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

    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 12th and 48 of 48 on the 13th.

    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 23383 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Hala Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 1998: Thursday 13 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Hala Ṣaṣṭhī 1998 falls on Thursday 13 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 21:49 on Wed 12 Aug to 19:16 on Thu 13 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1998/hala-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 13 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 13 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 13 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 12thCoveredMadhyāhna 13thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles06:49 → 04:1612:3448 min12:340 min12 Aug
Chicago08:49 → 06:1612:3148 min12:310 min12 Aug
Jersey City09:49 → 07:1612:3748 min12:370 min12 Aug
Port of Spain09:49 → 07:1611:4748 min11:470 min12 Aug
London14:49 → 12:1612:410 min12:410 min13 Aug
Durban15:49 → 13:1611:370 min11:3748 min13 Aug
Dubai17:49 → 15:1612:000 min11:5948 min13 Aug
Delhi19:19 → 16:4612:020 min12:0248 min13 Aug
Kolkata19:19 → 16:4611:170 min11:1748 min13 Aug
Singapore21:49 → 19:1612:460 min12:4648 min13 Aug
Sydney23:49 → 21:1611:360 min11:3648 min13 Aug
Suva01:49 → 23:1611:480 min11:4748 min13 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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