Ruling · Yama Dīpadāna · 2024

Tuesday 29 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 94 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 October

Taken. The only evening Trayodaśī reaches.

17:21 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:08
16:5717:2117:4518:0918:3318:5719:21

107 of 107 minutes covered

Evening of Wednesday 30 October

Trayodaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:20 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:07
16:5617:2017:4418:0818:3218:5619:20

0 of 107 minutes covered

Trayodaśī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Trayodaśī runs from 13:02 on Tue 29 Oct to 15:46 on Wed 30 Oct.

    2024-10-29T05:02:13Z → 2024-10-30T07:46:02Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:21–19:08 on the 29th, 17:20–19:07 on the 30th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 107 of 107 minutes on the 29th and 0 of 107 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 5615 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Dīpadāna, Baoding, 2024: Tuesday 29 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Dīpadāna 2024 falls on Tuesday 29 October. Trayodaśī runs from 13:02 on Tue 29 Oct to 15:46 on Wed 30 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2024/yama-dipadana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 29 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 29 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 29 Oct
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/yama-dipadana · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Trayodaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 13 Yama dipadana (pradosa).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceTrayodaśīSunset 29thCoveredSunset 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:02 → 00:4618:02105 min18:010 min29 Oct
Chicago00:02 → 02:4617:48109 min17:460 min29 Oct
Jersey City01:02 → 03:4617:55108 min17:540 min29 Oct
Port of Spain01:02 → 03:4617:4298 min17:420 min29 Oct
London05:02 → 07:4616:38114 min16:360 min29 Oct
Durban07:02 → 09:4618:1686 min18:160 min29 Oct
Dubai09:02 → 11:4617:40102 min17:390 min29 Oct
Delhi10:32 → 13:1617:38103 min17:370 min29 Oct
Kolkata10:32 → 13:1617:00101 min17:000 min29 Oct
Singapore13:02 → 15:4618:5095 min18:500 min29 Oct
Sydney16:02 → 18:4619:2085 min19:210 min29 Oct
Suva17:02 → 19:4618:1290 min18:1290 min29 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
yama-dipadana@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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