Ruling · Skanda Pañcamī · 2019

Sunday 7 July

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 2 min 11 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 6 July

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:59  12:47 madhyāhna ends
11:1111:3511:5912:2312:4713:1113:35

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 7 July

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:59  12:47 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī ends 12:49:03
11:1111:3511:5912:2312:4713:1113:35

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 15:40 on Sat 6 Jul to 12:49 on Sun 7 Jul.

    2019-07-06T07:40:01Z → 2019-07-07T04:49:04Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:59–12:47 on the 6th, 11:59–12:47 on the 7th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 6th and 48 of 48 on the 7th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 131 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Pañcamī, Baoding, 2019: Sunday 7 July.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Skanda Pañcamī 2019 falls on Sunday 7 July. Pañcamī runs from 15:40 on Sat 6 Jul to 12:49 on Sun 7 Jul and covers all of madhyāhna that midday. It is 2 min 11 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2019/skanda-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 7 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 7 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 7 Jul
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/skanda-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 5 Skanda pancami (paraviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 6thCoveredMadhyāhna 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:40 → 21:4912:3448 min12:340 min6 Jul
Chicago02:40 → 23:4912:3148 min12:310 min6 Jul
Jersey City03:40 → 00:4912:3748 min12:370 min6 Jul
Port of Spain03:40 → 00:4911:4748 min11:470 min6 Jul
London08:40 → 05:4912:4148 min12:410 min6 Jul
Durban09:40 → 06:4911:3748 min11:370 min6 Jul
Dubai11:40 → 08:4911:5948 min12:000 min6 Jul
Delhi13:10 → 10:1912:020 min12:020 min7 Jul
Kolkata13:10 → 10:1911:170 min11:170 min7 Jul
Singapore15:40 → 12:4912:450 min12:454 min7 Jul
Sydney17:40 → 14:4911:360 min11:3648 min7 Jul
Suva19:40 → 16:4911:470 min11:4748 min7 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
skanda-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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