Ruling · Śiva Śayanotsava · 2096

Thursday 5 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 172 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Wednesday 4 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:47 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:01
19:2319:4720:1120:3520:5921:2321:47

0 of 74 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 5 July

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

19:47 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:01
19:2319:4720:1120:3520:5921:2321:47

74 of 74 minutes covered

Pūrṇimā presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 23:53 on Wed 4 Jul to 01:04 on Fri 6 Jul.

    2096-07-04T15:52:31Z → 2096-07-05T17:04:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:47–21:01 on the 4th, 19:47–21:01 on the 5th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 74 minutes on the 4th and 74 of 74 on the 5th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 10313 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śiva Śayanotsava, Baoding, 2096: Thursday 5 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śiva Śayanotsava 2096 falls on Thursday 5 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 23:53 on Wed 4 Jul to 01:04 on Fri 6 Jul and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2096/shiva-shayanotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 5 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 5 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 5 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/shiva-shayanotsava · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Guru purnima (paraviddha), Vyasa puja (paraviddha, 3 muhurtas after sunrise), Kokila vrata (sayahna vyapini). Siva sayanotsava (pradosavyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 4thCoveredSunset 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:53 → 10:0420:0877 min20:080 min4 Jul
Chicago10:53 → 12:0420:2971 min20:280 min4 Jul
Jersey City11:53 → 13:0420:3172 min20:300 min4 Jul
Port of Spain11:53 → 13:0418:3390 min18:330 min4 Jul
London16:53 → 18:0421:1960 min21:190 min4 Jul
Durban17:53 → 19:0417:0967 min17:10110 min5 Jul
Dubai19:53 → 21:0419:1343 min19:1383 min5 Jul
Delhi21:23 → 22:3419:230 min19:2381 min5 Jul
Kolkata21:23 → 22:3418:260 min18:2584 min5 Jul
Singapore23:53 → 01:0419:150 min19:1595 min5 Jul
Sydney01:53 → 03:0416:590 min17:00112 min5 Jul
Suva03:53 → 05:0417:430 min17:44103 min5 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shiva-shayanotsava@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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