Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) · 2028

Saturday 29 April

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 514 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 Saturday 29 April

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:52  12:40 madhyāhna ends
11:0411:2811:5212:1612:4013:0413:28

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 30 April

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:52  12:40 madhyāhna ends
11:0411:2811:5212:1612:4013:0413:28

0 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 03:18 on Sat 29 Apr to 02:18 on Sun 30 Apr.

    2028-04-28T19:17:54Z → 2028-04-29T18:18:07Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:52–12:40 on the 29th, 11:52–12:40 on the 30th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 29th and 0 of 48 on the 30th.

    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: unstated → only-day · margin 30834 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 2028: Saturday 29 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) 2028 falls on Saturday 29 April. Pañcamī runs from 03:18 on Sat 29 Apr to 02:18 on Sun 30 Apr and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2028/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 29 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 29 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 29 Apr
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/shankara-jayanti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 5 Sankara jayanti.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 28thCoveredMadhyāhna 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:18 → 11:1812:2748 min12:260 min28 Apr
Chicago14:18 → 13:1812:240 min12:2448 min29 Apr
Jersey City15:18 → 14:1812:300 min12:3048 min29 Apr
Port of Spain15:18 → 14:1811:400 min11:3948 min29 Apr
London20:18 → 19:1812:340 min12:3448 min29 Apr
Durban21:18 → 20:1811:290 min11:2948 min29 Apr
Dubai23:18 → 22:1811:520 min11:5248 min29 Apr
Delhi00:48 → 23:4811:550 min11:5548 min29 Apr
Kolkata00:48 → 23:4811:100 min11:1048 min29 Apr
Singapore03:18 → 02:1812:380 min12:3848 min29 Apr
Sydney05:18 → 04:1811:280 min11:2848 min29 Apr
Suva07:18 → 06:1811:400 min11:4048 min29 Apr
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shankara-jayanti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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