Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 2015

Saturday 19 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 458 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 Saturday 19 September

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:48  12:36 madhyāhna ends
11:0011:2411:4812:1212:3613:0013:24

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 20 September

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:47  12:35 madhyāhna ends
10:5911:2311:4712:1112:3512:5913:23

0 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 02:46 on Sat 19 Sep to 04:10 on Sun 20 Sep.

    2015-09-18T18:46:16Z → 2015-09-19T20:09:39Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:48–12:36 on the 19th, 11:47–12:35 on the 20th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Ṣaṣṭhī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 19th and 0 of 48 on the 20th.

    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 27469 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 2015: Saturday 19 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 2015 falls on Saturday 19 September. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 02:46 on Sat 19 Sep to 04:10 on Sun 20 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2015/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 19 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 19 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 19 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 18thCoveredMadhyāhna 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:46 → 13:1012:2348 min12:2247 min19 Sep
Chicago13:46 → 15:1012:200 min12:2048 min19 Sep
Jersey City14:46 → 16:1012:260 min12:2648 min19 Sep
Port of Spain14:46 → 16:1011:360 min11:3648 min19 Sep
London19:46 → 21:1012:300 min12:3048 min19 Sep
Durban20:46 → 22:1011:260 min11:2648 min19 Sep
Dubai22:46 → 00:1011:490 min11:4948 min19 Sep
Delhi00:16 → 01:4011:510 min11:5148 min19 Sep
Kolkata00:16 → 01:4011:070 min11:0648 min19 Sep
Singapore02:46 → 04:1012:350 min12:3548 min19 Sep
Sydney04:46 → 06:1011:260 min11:2548 min19 Sep
Suva06:46 → 08:1011:370 min11:3648 min19 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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