Ruling · Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī · 2019

Monday 2 December

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 553 minutes.

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 Sunday 1 December

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:43  12:31 madhyāhna ends
10:5511:1911:4312:0712:3112:5513:19

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 2 December

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:43  12:31 madhyāhna ends
10:5511:1911:4312:0712:3112:5513:19

48 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 21:43 on Sun 1 Dec to 23:30 on Mon 2 Dec.

    2019-12-01T13:43:19Z → 2019-12-02T15:29:36Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:43–12:31 on the 1st, 11:43–12:31 on the 2nd.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Ṣaṣṭhī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 1st and 48 of 48 on the 2nd.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 33151 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 2019: Monday 2 December.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī 2019 falls on Monday 2 December. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 21:43 on Sun 1 Dec to 23:30 on Mon 2 Dec and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

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

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 2 Dec
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 2 Dec
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 2 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/skanda-shashthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Mārgaśīrṣa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 6 Campa sasthi (Maharashtra) (paraviddha). (Special when combined with naksatra Satabhisaj, yoga Vyatipata and Sunday), Skanda sasthi (purvaviddha), Guha sasthi” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 1stCoveredMadhyāhna 2ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:43 → 07:3011:1848 min11:180 min1 Dec
Chicago07:43 → 09:3011:1548 min11:160 min1 Dec
Jersey City08:43 → 10:3011:2148 min11:220 min1 Dec
Port of Spain09:43 → 11:3011:3148 min11:310 min1 Dec
London13:43 → 15:3011:250 min11:2648 min2 Dec
Durban15:43 → 17:3011:210 min11:2148 min2 Dec
Dubai17:43 → 19:3011:440 min11:4448 min2 Dec
Delhi19:13 → 21:0011:460 min11:4648 min2 Dec
Kolkata19:13 → 21:0011:010 min11:0248 min2 Dec
Singapore21:43 → 23:3012:290 min12:3048 min2 Dec
Sydney00:43 → 02:3012:200 min12:2048 min2 Dec
Suva02:43 → 04:3012:310 min12:3148 min2 Dec
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
skanda-shashthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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