Ruling · Dāmodara Dvādaśī · 2060

Monday 9 August

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 2 min 50 s away. Say “contested”.

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 Sunday 8 August

Dvādaśī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:00  12:48 madhyāhna ends
Dvādaśī begins 12:50:27
11:1211:3612:0012:2412:4813:1213:36

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 9 August

Taken. The only midday Dvādaśī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:59  12:47 madhyāhna ends
Dvādaśī ends 12:51:47
11:1111:3511:5912:2312:4713:1113:35

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Dvādaśī runs from 12:50 on Sun 8 Aug to 12:52 on Mon 9 Aug.

    2060-08-08T04:50:27Z → 2060-08-09T04:51:48Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:00–12:48 on the 8th, 11:59–12:47 on the 9th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Dvādaśī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 8th and 48 of 48 on the 9th.

    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 170 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dāmodara Dvādaśī, Baoding, 2060: Monday 9 August.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dāmodara Dvādaśī 2060 falls on Monday 9 August. Dvādaśī runs from 12:50 on Sun 8 Aug to 12:52 on Mon 9 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday. It is 2 min 50 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2060/damodara-dvadashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 9 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 9 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 8 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/damodara-dvadashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 12 Buddha dvadasi, Damodara dvadasi (purvaviddha), Visnu-pavitraropana.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceDvādaśīMadhyāhna 8thCoveredMadhyāhna 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:50 → 21:5212:3448 min12:340 min8 Aug
Chicago23:50 → 23:5212:3248 min12:320 min8 Aug
Jersey City00:50 → 00:5212:3848 min12:380 min8 Aug
Port of Spain00:50 → 00:5211:4848 min11:480 min8 Aug
London05:50 → 05:5212:4248 min12:420 min8 Aug
Durban06:50 → 06:5211:3848 min11:380 min8 Aug
Dubai08:50 → 08:5212:0048 min12:000 min8 Aug
Delhi10:20 → 10:2212:0348 min12:020 min8 Aug
Kolkata10:20 → 10:2211:1848 min11:180 min8 Aug
Singapore12:50 → 12:5212:4644 min12:466 min8 Aug
Sydney14:50 → 14:5211:370 min11:3748 min9 Aug
Suva16:50 → 16:5211:480 min11:4848 min9 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
damodara-dvadashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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