Ruling · Dattātreyotpatti (Dattātreya Jayantī) · 2039

Friday 30 December

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both evenings qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.

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 Thursday 29 December

Qualifies with 64 of 116 minutes. Not taken.

17:04 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:00
Pūrṇimā begins 17:56:03
16:4017:0417:2817:5218:1618:4019:0419:28

64 of 116 minutes covered, the last 64

Evening of Friday 30 December

Taken. Both evenings qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.

17:04 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:01
16:4017:0417:2817:5218:1618:4019:0419:28

116 of 116 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 17:56 on Thu 29 Dec to 20:38 on Fri 30 Dec.

    2039-12-29T09:56:03Z → 2039-12-30T12:37:47Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:04–19:00 on the 29th, 17:04–19:01 on the 30th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 64 of 116 minutes on the 29th and 116 of 116 on the 30th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Both evenings qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

    priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 3140 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dattātreyotpatti, Baoding, 2039: Friday 30 December.

    confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dattātreyotpatti (Datta Jayanti) 2039 falls on Friday 30 December. Pūrṇimā runs from 17:56 on Thu 29 Dec to 20:38 on Fri 30 Dec and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 64 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2039/dattatreyotpatti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 30 Dec
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 30 Dec
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 30 Dec
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/dattatreyotpatti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 15 Dattatreyotpatti (pradosa).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 29thCoveredSunset 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:56 → 04:3816:52113 min16:530 min29 Dec
Chicago03:56 → 06:3816:27119 min16:280 min29 Dec
Jersey City04:56 → 07:3816:37118 min16:370 min29 Dec
Port of Spain05:56 → 08:3817:53100 min17:540 min29 Dec
London09:56 → 12:3815:58129 min15:590 min29 Dec
Durban11:56 → 14:3818:5980 min18:590 min29 Dec
Dubai13:56 → 16:3817:38107 min17:390 min29 Dec
Delhi15:26 → 18:0817:33109 min17:3334 min29 Dec
Kolkata15:26 → 18:0817:01106 min17:0266 min29 Dec
Singapore17:56 → 20:3819:0896 min19:0890 min29 Dec
Sydney20:56 → 23:3820:0829 min20:0977 min30 Dec
Suva21:56 → 00:3818:440 min18:4486 min30 Dec
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
dattatreyotpatti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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