Ruling · Śītalā Saptamī · 2022

Thursday 18 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 609 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 Wednesday 17 August

Saptamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:58  12:46 madhyāhna ends
11:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:1013:34

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 18 August

Taken. The only midday Saptamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:58  12:46 madhyāhna ends
11:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:1013:34

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 22:55 on Wed 17 Aug to 23:52 on Thu 18 Aug.

    2022-08-17T14:55:06Z → 2022-08-18T15:51:30Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:58–12:46 on the 17th, 11:58–12:46 on the 18th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 17th and 48 of 48 on the 18th.

    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: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 36546 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śītalā Saptamī, Baoding, 2022: Thursday 18 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śītalā Saptamī 2022 falls on Thursday 18 August. Saptamī runs from 22:55 on Wed 17 Aug to 23:52 on Thu 18 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2022/shitala-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 18 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 18 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 18 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/shitala-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Saptamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 7 Sitala saptami (purvaviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīMadhyāhna 17thCoveredMadhyāhna 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:55 → 08:5212:3348 min12:330 min17 Aug
Chicago09:55 → 10:5212:3048 min12:300 min17 Aug
Jersey City10:55 → 11:5212:3648 min12:360 min17 Aug
Port of Spain10:55 → 11:5211:4648 min11:466 min17 Aug
London15:55 → 16:5212:400 min12:4048 min18 Aug
Durban16:55 → 17:5211:360 min11:3648 min18 Aug
Dubai18:55 → 19:5211:590 min11:5848 min18 Aug
Delhi20:25 → 21:2212:010 min12:0148 min18 Aug
Kolkata20:25 → 21:2211:170 min11:1648 min18 Aug
Singapore22:55 → 23:5212:450 min12:4548 min18 Aug
Sydney00:55 → 01:5211:360 min11:3548 min18 Aug
Suva02:55 → 03:5211:470 min11:4648 min18 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shitala-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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