Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 2006

Wednesday 30 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 176 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 Tuesday 29 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:55  12:43 madhyāhna ends
11:0711:3111:5512:1912:4313:0713:31

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 30 August

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:55  12:43 madhyāhna ends
11:0711:3111:5512:1912:4313:0713:31

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 15:39 on Tue 29 Aug to 17:27 on Wed 30 Aug.

    2006-08-29T07:38:39Z → 2006-08-30T09:26:46Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:55–12:43 on the 29th, 11:55–12:43 on the 30th.

    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 29th and 48 of 48 on the 30th.

    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 10546 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 2006: Wednesday 30 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 2006 falls on Wednesday 30 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 15:39 on Tue 29 Aug to 17:27 on Wed 30 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2006/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 30 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 30 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 30 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 29thCoveredMadhyāhna 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:39 → 02:2712:3048 min12:290 min29 Aug
Chicago02:39 → 04:2712:2748 min12:270 min29 Aug
Jersey City03:39 → 05:2712:3348 min12:330 min29 Aug
Port of Spain03:39 → 05:2711:4348 min11:430 min29 Aug
London08:39 → 10:2712:3748 min12:370 min29 Aug
Durban09:39 → 11:2711:3348 min11:330 min29 Aug
Dubai11:39 → 13:2711:5648 min11:5548 min30 Aug
Delhi13:09 → 14:5711:580 min11:5848 min30 Aug
Kolkata13:09 → 14:5711:130 min11:1348 min30 Aug
Singapore15:39 → 17:2712:420 min12:4148 min30 Aug
Sydney17:39 → 19:2711:320 min11:3248 min30 Aug
Suva19:39 → 21:2711:440 min11:4348 min30 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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