Ruling · Anaṅga Trayodaśī · 2017

Saturday 8 April

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 4 min 00 s away. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Saturday 8 April

Taken. Both middays qualify; the rule takes the first.

madhyāhna begins 11:56  12:44 madhyāhna ends
Trayodaśī begins 11:30:24
11:0811:3211:5612:2012:4413:0813:32

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 9 April

Qualifies with 4 of 48 minutes. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:56  12:44 madhyāhna ends
Trayodaśī ends 12:00:05
11:0811:3211:5612:2012:4413:0813:32

4 of 48 minutes covered, the first 4

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Trayodaśī runs from 11:30 on Sat 8 Apr to 12:00 on Sun 9 Apr.

    2017-04-08T03:30:24Z → 2017-04-09T04:00:05Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:56–12:44 on the 8th, 11:56–12:44 on the 9th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Trayodaśī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 8th and 4 of 48 on the 9th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Both middays qualify. Pūrvaviddhā: the first is taken.

    priority: purvaviddha → purvaviddha · margin 240 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Anaṅga Trayodaśī, Baoding, 2017: Saturday 8 April.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Anaṅga Trayodaśī 2017 falls on Saturday 8 April. Trayodaśī runs from 11:30 on Sat 8 Apr to 12:00 on Sun 9 Apr and covers all of madhyāhna that midday. It also reaches the next midday for 4 minutes; by the rule the first midday is taken. It is 4 min 00 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2017/ananga-trayodashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 8 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 8 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 8 Apr
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/ananga-trayodashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Caitra, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Trayodaśī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 13 Ananga trayodasi (purvaviddha), Mahavira jayanti (Jain).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceTrayodaśīMadhyāhna 8thCoveredMadhyāhna 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:30 → 21:0012:3148 min12:310 min8 Apr
Chicago22:30 → 23:0012:2948 min12:280 min8 Apr
Jersey City23:30 → 00:0012:3448 min12:340 min8 Apr
Port of Spain23:30 → 00:0011:4448 min11:440 min8 Apr
London04:30 → 05:0012:3948 min12:390 min8 Apr
Durban05:30 → 06:0011:3348 min11:330 min8 Apr
Dubai07:30 → 08:0011:5748 min11:570 min8 Apr
Delhi09:00 → 09:3011:5948 min11:590 min8 Apr
Kolkata09:00 → 09:3011:1548 min11:140 min8 Apr
Singapore11:30 → 12:0012:4248 min12:420 min8 Apr
Sydney13:30 → 14:0011:330 min11:3348 min9 Apr
Suva15:30 → 16:0011:440 min11:4448 min9 Apr
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ananga-trayodashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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