Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 2020

Monday 24 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 257 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 23 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:56  12:44 madhyāhna ends
11:0811:3211:5612:2012:4413:0813:32

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 24 August

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:56  12:44 madhyāhna ends
11:0811:3211:5612:2012:4413:0813:32

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 19:35 on Sun 23 Aug to 17:02 on Mon 24 Aug.

    2020-08-23T11:34:55Z → 2020-08-24T09:01:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:56–12:44 on the 23rd, 11:56–12:44 on the 24th.

    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 23rd and 48 of 48 on the 24th.

    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 15443 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 2020: Monday 24 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 2020 falls on Monday 24 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 19:35 on Sun 23 Aug to 17:02 on Mon 24 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2020/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 24 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 24 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 24 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 23rdCoveredMadhyāhna 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:35 → 02:0212:3148 min12:310 min23 Aug
Chicago06:35 → 04:0212:2948 min12:280 min23 Aug
Jersey City07:35 → 05:0212:3448 min12:340 min23 Aug
Port of Spain07:35 → 05:0211:4448 min11:440 min23 Aug
London12:35 → 10:0212:3848 min12:380 min23 Aug
Durban13:35 → 11:0211:350 min11:340 min24 Aug
Dubai15:35 → 13:0211:570 min11:5748 min24 Aug
Delhi17:05 → 14:3211:590 min11:5948 min24 Aug
Kolkata17:05 → 14:3211:150 min11:1548 min24 Aug
Singapore19:35 → 17:0212:430 min12:4348 min24 Aug
Sydney21:35 → 19:0211:340 min11:3448 min24 Aug
Suva23:35 → 21:0211:450 min11:4548 min24 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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