Ruling · Skanda Pañcamī · 2072

Wednesday 20 July

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 4 min 16 s away. Say “contested”.

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 Tuesday 19 July

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:01  12:49 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī begins 12:52:50
11:1311:3712:0112:2512:4913:1313:37

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 20 July

Taken. Pañcamī reaches neither midday; the rule takes the second day.

madhyāhna begins 12:01  12:49 madhyāhna ends
11:1311:3712:0112:2512:4913:1313:37

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 12:53 on Tue 19 Jul to 10:06 on Wed 20 Jul.

    2072-07-19T04:52:50Z → 2072-07-20T02:06:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:01–12:49 on the 19th, 12:01–12:49 on the 20th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 19th and 0 of 48 on the 20th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Neither midday qualifies. The rule takes the second day.

    priority: paraviddha → second-day · margin 256 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Pañcamī, Baoding, 2072: Wednesday 20 July.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Skanda Pañcamī 2072 falls on Wednesday 20 July. Pañcamī runs from 12:53 on Tue 19 Jul to 10:06 on Wed 20 Jul, and reaches madhyāhna on neither day. It is 4 min 16 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2072/skanda-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 20 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 20 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 19 Jul
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/skanda-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 5 Skanda pancami (paraviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 19thCoveredMadhyāhna 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:53 → 19:0612:3548 min12:360 min19 Jul
Chicago23:53 → 21:0612:3348 min12:330 min19 Jul
Jersey City00:53 → 22:0612:3948 min12:390 min19 Jul
Port of Spain00:53 → 22:0611:4948 min11:490 min19 Jul
London05:53 → 03:0612:4348 min12:430 min19 Jul
Durban06:53 → 04:0611:3948 min11:390 min19 Jul
Dubai08:53 → 06:0612:0148 min12:010 min19 Jul
Delhi10:23 → 07:3612:0448 min12:040 min19 Jul
Kolkata10:23 → 07:3611:1948 min11:190 min19 Jul
Singapore12:53 → 10:0612:4742 min12:470 min19 Jul
Sydney14:53 → 12:0611:380 min11:3828 min20 Jul
Suva16:53 → 14:0611:490 min11:4948 min20 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
skanda-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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