Ruling · Yama Dīpadāna · 2015

Monday 9 November

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 1 min 13 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 Sunday 8 November

Trayodaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:11 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:01
Trayodaśī begins 19:01:44
16:4717:1117:3517:5918:2318:4719:11

0 of 110 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 9 November

Taken. The only evening Trayodaśī reaches.

17:10 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:00
16:4617:1017:3417:5818:2218:4619:10

110 of 110 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Trayodaśī runs from 19:02 on Sun 8 Nov to 21:37 on Mon 9 Nov.

    2015-11-08T11:01:45Z → 2015-11-09T13:36:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:11–19:01 on the 8th, 17:10–19:00 on the 9th.

    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 110 minutes on the 8th and 110 of 110 on the 9th.

    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 73 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Dīpadāna, Baoding, 2015: Monday 9 November.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Dīpadāna 2015 falls on Monday 9 November. Trayodaśī runs from 19:02 on Sun 8 Nov to 21:37 on Mon 9 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It is 1 min 13 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2015/yama-dipadana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 9 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 9 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 9 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 8thCoveredSunset 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:02 → 05:3716:54107 min16:530 min8 Nov
Chicago05:02 → 07:3716:37111 min16:360 min8 Nov
Jersey City06:02 → 08:3716:45111 min16:440 min8 Nov
Port of Spain07:02 → 09:3717:4099 min17:400 min8 Nov
London11:02 → 13:3716:22118 min16:200 min8 Nov
Durban13:02 → 15:3718:2384 min18:240 min8 Nov
Dubai15:02 → 17:3717:34104 min17:343 min8 Nov
Delhi16:32 → 19:0717:31105 min17:3196 min8 Nov
Kolkata16:32 → 19:0716:55103 min16:55103 min9 Nov
Singapore19:02 → 21:3718:5084 min18:5096 min9 Nov
Sydney22:02 → 00:3719:290 min19:3082 min9 Nov
Suva00:02 → 02:3719:160 min19:1689 min9 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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