Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 2017

Sunday 27 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 644 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 Sunday 27 August

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:55  12:43 madhyāhna ends
11:0711:3111:5512:1912:4313:0713:31

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 28 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:55  12:43 madhyāhna ends
11:0711:3111:5512:1912:4313:0713:31

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 23:48 on Sat 26 Aug to 01:12 on Mon 28 Aug.

    2017-08-26T15:47:37Z → 2017-08-27T17:11:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:55–12:43 on the 27th, 11:55–12:43 on the 28th.

    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 27th and 0 of 48 on the 28th.

    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 38613 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 2017: Sunday 27 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 2017 falls on Sunday 27 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 23:48 on Sat 26 Aug to 01:12 on Mon 28 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2017/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 27 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 27 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 27 Aug
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 26thCoveredMadhyāhna 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:48 → 10:1212:3048 min12:300 min26 Aug
Chicago10:48 → 12:1212:2848 min12:280 min26 Aug
Jersey City11:48 → 13:1212:3448 min12:3338 min27 Aug
Port of Spain11:48 → 13:1211:4444 min11:4348 min27 Aug
London16:48 → 18:1212:380 min12:3748 min27 Aug
Durban17:48 → 19:1211:340 min11:3448 min27 Aug
Dubai19:48 → 21:1211:560 min11:5648 min27 Aug
Delhi21:18 → 22:4211:590 min11:5848 min27 Aug
Kolkata21:18 → 22:4211:140 min11:1448 min27 Aug
Singapore23:48 → 01:1212:420 min12:4248 min27 Aug
Sydney01:48 → 03:1211:330 min11:3348 min27 Aug
Suva03:48 → 05:1211:440 min11:4448 min27 Aug
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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