Ruling · Dattātreyotpatti (Dattātreya Jayantī) · 2016

Tuesday 13 December

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 310 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 Tuesday 13 December

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

16:56 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:53
16:3216:5617:2017:4418:0818:3218:5619:20

116 of 116 minutes covered

Evening of Wednesday 14 December

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

16:57 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:53
16:3316:5717:2117:4518:0918:3318:5719:21

0 of 116 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 11:46 on Tue 13 Dec to 08:06 on Wed 14 Dec.

    2016-12-13T03:46:30Z → 2016-12-14T00:05:33Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 16:56–18:53 on the 13th, 16:57–18:53 on the 14th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 116 of 116 minutes on the 13th and 0 of 116 on the 14th.

    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 18591 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dattātreyotpatti, Baoding, 2016: Tuesday 13 December.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dattātreyotpatti (Datta Jayanti) 2016 falls on Tuesday 13 December. Pūrṇimā runs from 11:46 on Tue 13 Dec to 08:06 on Wed 14 Dec and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2016/dattatreyotpatti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 13 Dec
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 13 Dec
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 13 Dec
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/dattatreyotpatti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Mārgaśīrṣa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 15 Dattatreyotpatti (pradosa).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 13thCoveredSunset 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:46 → 16:0616:440 min16:450 min12 Dec
Chicago21:46 → 18:0616:20106 min16:200 min13 Dec
Jersey City22:46 → 19:0616:29118 min16:290 min13 Dec
Port of Spain23:46 → 20:0617:46100 min17:460 min13 Dec
London03:46 → 00:0615:51129 min15:510 min13 Dec
Durban05:46 → 02:0618:5180 min18:520 min13 Dec
Dubai07:46 → 04:0617:31107 min17:310 min13 Dec
Delhi09:16 → 05:3617:25109 min17:260 min13 Dec
Kolkata09:16 → 05:3616:54106 min16:540 min13 Dec
Singapore11:46 → 08:0619:0096 min19:010 min13 Dec
Sydney14:46 → 11:0620:0177 min20:010 min13 Dec
Suva16:46 → 13:0619:3686 min19:370 min13 Dec
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
dattatreyotpatti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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