Ruling · Yama Dīpadāna · 2001

Tuesday 13 November

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 0 min 45 s away. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Monday 12 November

Trayodaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:07 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:58
16:4317:0717:3117:5518:1918:4319:0719:31

0 of 111 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 13 November

Taken. The only evening Trayodaśī reaches.

17:06 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:57
Trayodaśī ends 18:56:22
16:4217:0617:3017:5418:1818:4219:0619:30

110 of 111 minutes covered, the first 110

Trayodaśī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Trayodaśī runs from 21:28 on Mon 12 Nov to 18:56 on Tue 13 Nov.

    2001-11-12T13:28:16Z → 2001-11-13T10:56:22Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:07–18:58 on the 12th, 17:06–18:57 on the 13th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 111 minutes on the 12th and 110 of 111 on the 13th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 45 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Dīpadāna, Baoding, 2001: Tuesday 13 November.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Dīpadāna 2001 falls on Tuesday 13 November. Trayodaśī runs from 21:28 on Mon 12 Nov to 18:56 on Tue 13 Nov and covers 110 of 111 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It is 0 min 45 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2001/yama-dipadana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 13 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 13 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 13 Nov
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/yama-dipadana · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Trayodaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 13 Yama dipadana (pradosa).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceTrayodaśīSunset 12thCoveredSunset 13thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:28 → 02:5616:51108 min16:500 min12 Nov
Chicago07:28 → 04:5616:32113 min16:310 min12 Nov
Jersey City08:28 → 05:5616:40112 min16:400 min12 Nov
Port of Spain09:28 → 06:5617:4099 min17:400 min12 Nov
London13:28 → 10:5616:15120 min16:140 min12 Nov
Durban15:28 → 12:5618:2784 min18:270 min12 Nov
Dubai17:28 → 14:5617:32104 min17:320 min12 Nov
Delhi18:58 → 16:2617:2916 min17:280 min12 Nov
Kolkata18:58 → 16:2616:540 min16:530 min12 Nov
Singapore21:28 → 18:5618:500 min18:516 min13 Nov
Sydney00:28 → 21:5619:330 min19:3481 min13 Nov
Suva01:28 → 22:5618:180 min18:1889 min13 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
yama-dipadana@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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