Ruling · Tila Caturthī · 2009

Friday 30 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 64 minutes.

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 Thursday 29 January

Caturthī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:35 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:26
17:1117:3517:5918:2318:4719:1119:3519:59

0 of 111 minutes covered

Evening of Friday 30 January

Taken. The only evening Caturthī reaches.

17:37 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:27
17:1317:3718:0118:2518:4919:1319:3720:01

111 of 111 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturthī runs from 20:31 on Thu 29 Jan to 21:08 on Fri 30 Jan.

    2009-01-29T12:30:32Z → 2009-01-30T13:08:24Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:35–19:26 on the 29th, 17:37–19:27 on the 30th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturthī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 111 minutes on the 29th and 111 of 111 on the 30th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 3854 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Tila Caturthī, Baoding, 2009: Friday 30 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Tila Caturthī 2009 falls on Friday 30 January. Caturthī runs from 20:31 on Thu 29 Jan to 21:08 on Fri 30 Jan and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2009/tila-chaturthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 30 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 30 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 30 Jan
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/tila-chaturthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Caturthī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 4 Tila caturthi and Kunda caturthi (pradosavyapini), Varada caturthi (Bengal & Orissa), Ganesa caturthi, Ganesa jayanti (madhyahnavyapini purvaviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturthīSunset 29thCoveredSunset 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:31 → 05:0817:21108 min17:220 min29 Jan
Chicago06:31 → 07:0817:02112 min17:030 min29 Jan
Jersey City07:31 → 08:0817:10112 min17:110 min29 Jan
Port of Spain08:31 → 09:0818:0999 min18:090 min29 Jan
London12:31 → 13:0816:44120 min16:460 min29 Jan
Durban14:31 → 15:0818:5584 min18:550 min29 Jan
Dubai16:31 → 17:0818:01104 min18:020 min29 Jan
Delhi18:01 → 18:3817:58103 min17:5840 min29 Jan
Kolkata18:01 → 18:3817:2365 min17:2375 min30 Jan
Singapore20:31 → 21:0819:1924 min19:2096 min30 Jan
Sydney23:31 → 00:0820:020 min20:0282 min30 Jan
Suva00:31 → 01:0818:470 min18:4789 min30 Jan
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
tila-chaturthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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