Ruling · Dattātreyotpatti (Datta Jayanti) · 2020

Tuesday 29 December

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 337 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 29 December

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

17:04 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:00
16:4017:0417:2817:5218:1618:4019:0419:28

116 of 116 minutes covered

Evening of Wednesday 30 December

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:05 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:01
16:4117:0517:2917:5318:1718:4119:0519:29

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 10:25 on Tue 29 Dec to 11:28 on Wed 30 Dec.

    2020-12-29T02:24:51Z → 2020-12-30T03:28:13Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:04–19:00 on the 29th, 17:05–19:01 on the 30th.

    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 29th and 0 of 116 on the 30th.

    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 20202 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dattātreyotpatti, Baoding, 2020: Tuesday 29 December.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dattātreyotpatti (Datta Jayanti) 2020 falls on Tuesday 29 December. Pūrṇimā runs from 10:25 on Tue 29 Dec to 11:28 on Wed 30 Dec and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2020/dattatreyotpatti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 29 Dec
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 29 Dec
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 29 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 29thCoveredSunset 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:25 → 19:2816:53113 min16:530 min29 Dec
Chicago20:25 → 21:2816:28119 min16:290 min29 Dec
Jersey City21:25 → 22:2816:37118 min16:380 min29 Dec
Port of Spain22:25 → 23:2817:54100 min17:540 min29 Dec
London02:25 → 03:2815:59129 min16:000 min29 Dec
Durban04:25 → 05:2818:5980 min18:590 min29 Dec
Dubai06:25 → 07:2817:39107 min17:390 min29 Dec
Delhi07:55 → 08:5817:33109 min17:340 min29 Dec
Kolkata07:55 → 08:5817:02106 min17:020 min29 Dec
Singapore10:25 → 11:2819:0896 min19:090 min29 Dec
Sydney13:25 → 14:2820:0877 min20:090 min29 Dec
Suva15:25 → 16:2819:4486 min19:450 min29 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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