Ruling · Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī · 2088

Sunday 19 December

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 514 minutes.

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Saturday 18 December

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 19 December

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

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

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 21:14 on Sat 18 Dec to 23:07 on Sun 19 Dec.

    2088-12-18T13:13:35Z → 2088-12-19T15:07:18Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 18th, 11:52–12:40 on the 19th.

    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 18th and 48 of 48 on the 19th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 30864 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 2088: Sunday 19 December.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī 2088 falls on Sunday 19 December. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 21:14 on Sat 18 Dec to 23:07 on Sun 19 Dec and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2088/skanda-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 19 Dec
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 19 Dec
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 19 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/skanda-shashthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Mārgaśīrṣa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 6 Campa sasthi (Maharashtra) (paraviddha). (Special when combined with naksatra Satabhisaj, yoga Vyatipata and Sunday), Skanda sasthi (purvaviddha), Guha sasthi” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 18thCoveredMadhyāhna 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:14 → 07:0711:2648 min11:270 min18 Dec
Chicago07:14 → 09:0711:2448 min11:240 min18 Dec
Jersey City08:14 → 10:0711:3048 min11:300 min18 Dec
Port of Spain09:14 → 11:0711:3948 min11:400 min18 Dec
London13:14 → 15:0711:340 min11:3448 min19 Dec
Durban15:14 → 17:0711:290 min11:3048 min19 Dec
Dubai17:14 → 19:0711:520 min11:5248 min19 Dec
Delhi18:44 → 20:3711:540 min11:5548 min19 Dec
Kolkata18:44 → 20:3711:100 min11:1048 min19 Dec
Singapore21:14 → 23:0712:380 min12:3848 min19 Dec
Sydney00:14 → 02:0712:280 min12:2948 min19 Dec
Suva01:14 → 03:0711:390 min11:4048 min19 Dec
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
skanda-shashthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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