Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 2011

Saturday 3 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 214 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 Friday 2 September

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:54  12:42 madhyāhna ends
11:0611:3011:5412:1812:4213:0613:30

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 3 September

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:53  12:41 madhyāhna ends
11:0511:2911:5312:1712:4113:0513:29

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 18:40 on Fri 2 Sep to 16:16 on Sat 3 Sep.

    2011-09-02T10:40:10Z → 2011-09-03T08:15:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:54–12:42 on the 2nd, 11:53–12:41 on the 3rd.

    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 2nd and 48 of 48 on the 3rd.

    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 12847 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 2011: Saturday 3 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 2011 falls on Saturday 3 September. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 18:40 on Fri 2 Sep to 16:16 on Sat 3 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2011/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 3 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 3 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 3 Sep
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 2ndCoveredMadhyāhna 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:40 → 01:1612:2848 min12:280 min2 Sep
Chicago05:40 → 03:1612:2648 min12:260 min2 Sep
Jersey City06:40 → 04:1612:3248 min12:310 min2 Sep
Port of Spain06:40 → 04:1611:4248 min11:410 min2 Sep
London11:40 → 09:1612:3648 min12:350 min2 Sep
Durban12:40 → 10:1611:320 min11:320 min3 Sep
Dubai14:40 → 12:1611:540 min11:5421 min3 Sep
Delhi16:10 → 13:4611:570 min11:5648 min3 Sep
Kolkata16:10 → 13:4611:120 min11:1248 min3 Sep
Singapore18:40 → 16:1612:400 min12:4048 min3 Sep
Sydney20:40 → 18:1611:310 min11:3148 min3 Sep
Suva22:40 → 20:1611:420 min11:4248 min3 Sep
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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