Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 2045

Saturday 16 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 481 minutes.

Decide it for

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 Friday 15 September

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:49  12:37 madhyāhna ends
11:0111:2511:4912:1312:3713:0113:25

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 16 September

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:49  12:37 madhyāhna ends
11:0111:2511:4912:1312:3713:0113:25

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 21:04 on Fri 15 Sep to 20:37 on Sat 16 Sep.

    2045-09-15T13:04:14Z → 2045-09-16T12:37:26Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:49–12:37 on the 15th, 11:49–12:37 on the 16th.

    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 15th and 48 of 48 on the 16th.

    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 28843 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 2045: Saturday 16 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 2045 falls on Saturday 16 September. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 21:04 on Fri 15 Sep to 20:37 on Sat 16 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2045/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 16 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 16 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 16 Sep
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 15thCoveredMadhyāhna 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles06:04 → 05:3712:2448 min12:230 min15 Sep
Chicago08:04 → 07:3712:2148 min12:210 min15 Sep
Jersey City09:04 → 08:3712:2748 min12:270 min15 Sep
Port of Spain09:04 → 08:3711:3748 min11:370 min15 Sep
London14:04 → 13:3712:310 min12:3148 min16 Sep
Durban15:04 → 14:3711:270 min11:2748 min16 Sep
Dubai17:04 → 16:3711:500 min11:4948 min16 Sep
Delhi18:34 → 18:0711:520 min11:5248 min16 Sep
Kolkata18:34 → 18:0711:080 min11:0748 min16 Sep
Singapore21:04 → 20:3712:360 min12:3548 min16 Sep
Sydney23:04 → 22:3711:270 min11:2648 min16 Sep
Suva01:04 → 00:3711:380 min11:3748 min16 Sep
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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