Ruling · Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) · 2097

Wednesday 11 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 279 minutes.

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 Wednesday 11 September

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

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

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 12 September

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:50  12:38 madhyāhna ends
11:0211:2611:5012:1412:3813:0213:26

0 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 05:40 on Wed 11 Sep to 07:11 on Thu 12 Sep.

    2097-09-10T21:39:45Z → 2097-09-11T23:11:27Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 11th, 11:50–12:38 on the 12th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Ṣaṣṭhī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 11th and 0 of 48 on the 12th.

    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: paraviddha → only-day · margin 16735 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada), Baoding, 2097: Wednesday 11 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Sūrya Ṣaṣṭhī (Bhādrapada) 2097 falls on Wednesday 11 September. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 05:40 on Wed 11 Sep to 07:11 on Thu 12 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2097/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 11 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 11 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 11 Sep
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/surya-shashthi-bhadrapada · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 6 Surya sasthi (paraviddha), Lolarka sasthi” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 10thCoveredMadhyāhna 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:40 → 16:1112:260 min12:2548 min11 Sep
Chicago16:40 → 18:1112:230 min12:2348 min11 Sep
Jersey City17:40 → 19:1112:290 min12:2948 min11 Sep
Port of Spain17:40 → 19:1111:390 min11:3948 min11 Sep
London22:40 → 00:1112:330 min12:3348 min11 Sep
Durban23:40 → 01:1111:290 min11:2948 min11 Sep
Dubai01:40 → 03:1111:520 min11:5148 min11 Sep
Delhi03:10 → 04:4111:540 min11:5448 min11 Sep
Kolkata03:10 → 04:4111:100 min11:0948 min11 Sep
Singapore05:40 → 07:1112:380 min12:3748 min11 Sep
Sydney07:40 → 09:1111:290 min11:2848 min11 Sep
Suva09:40 → 11:1111:400 min11:3948 min11 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
surya-shashthi-bhadrapada@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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