Ruling · Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī · 2094

Monday 13 December

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 297 minutes.

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The two middays

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

Midday of Sunday 12 December

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:48  12:36 madhyāhna ends
11:0011:2411:4812:1212:3613:0013:24

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 13 December

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 19:43 on Sun 12 Dec to 17:34 on Mon 13 Dec.

    2094-12-12T11:43:03Z → 2094-12-13T09:33:46Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:48–12:36 on the 12th, 11:49–12:37 on the 13th.

    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 12th and 48 of 48 on the 13th.

    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 17834 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 2094: Monday 13 December.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī 2094 falls on Monday 13 December. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 19:43 on Sun 12 Dec to 17:34 on Mon 13 Dec and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2094/skanda-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 13 Dec
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 13 Dec
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 13 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 12thCoveredMadhyāhna 13thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:43 → 01:3411:2348 min11:240 min12 Dec
Chicago05:43 → 03:3411:2148 min11:210 min12 Dec
Jersey City06:43 → 04:3411:2648 min11:270 min12 Dec
Port of Spain07:43 → 05:3411:3648 min11:370 min12 Dec
London11:43 → 09:3411:3135 min11:310 min12 Dec
Durban13:43 → 11:3411:260 min11:267 min13 Dec
Dubai15:43 → 13:3411:490 min11:4948 min13 Dec
Delhi17:13 → 15:0411:510 min11:5248 min13 Dec
Kolkata17:13 → 15:0411:070 min11:0748 min13 Dec
Singapore19:43 → 17:3412:350 min12:3548 min13 Dec
Sydney22:43 → 20:3412:250 min12:2648 min13 Dec
Suva23:43 → 21:3411:360 min11:3748 min13 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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