Ruling · Guru Pūrṇimā · 2020

Sunday 5 July

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 2 min 16 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 4 July

Pūrṇimā 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 5 July

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:59  12:47 madhyāhna ends
Pūrṇimā ends 12:44:24
11:1111:3511:5912:2312:4713:1113:35

46 of 48 minutes covered, the first 46

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 14:04 on Sat 4 Jul to 12:44 on Sun 5 Jul.

    2020-07-04T06:04:17Z → 2020-07-05T04:44:25Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:59–12:47 on the 4th, 11:59–12:47 on the 5th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 4th and 46 of 48 on the 5th.

    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 136 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Guru Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 2020: Sunday 5 July.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Guru Pūrṇimā 2020 falls on Sunday 5 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 14:04 on Sat 4 Jul to 12:44 on Sun 5 Jul and covers 46 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday. It is 2 min 16 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 5 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 5 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 5 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/guru-purnima · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 15 Guru purnima (paraviddha), Vyasa puja (paraviddha, 3 muhurtas after sunrise), Kokila vrata (sayahna vyapini). Siva sayanotsava (pradosavyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāMadhyāhna 4thCoveredMadhyāhna 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:04 → 21:4412:3348 min12:340 min4 Jul
Chicago01:04 → 23:4412:3148 min12:310 min4 Jul
Jersey City02:04 → 00:4412:3748 min12:370 min4 Jul
Port of Spain02:04 → 00:4411:4748 min11:470 min4 Jul
London07:04 → 05:4412:4148 min12:410 min4 Jul
Durban08:04 → 06:4411:3648 min11:370 min4 Jul
Dubai10:04 → 08:4411:5948 min11:590 min4 Jul
Delhi11:34 → 10:1412:0148 min12:020 min4 Jul
Kolkata11:34 → 10:1411:1731 min11:170 min4 Jul
Singapore14:04 → 12:4412:450 min12:450 min5 Jul
Sydney16:04 → 14:4411:360 min11:3648 min5 Jul
Suva18:04 → 16:4411:470 min11:4748 min5 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
guru-purnima@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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