Ruling · Hala Ṣaṣṭhī · 1925

Sunday 9 August

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 620 minutes.

Decide it for

44°26′ N 26°06′ E · Europe/Bucharest · GeoNames 683506

The two middays

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

Midday of Saturday 8 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:41  12:29 madhyāhna ends
10:5311:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:17

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 9 August

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:41  12:29 madhyāhna ends
10:5311:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:17

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 23:44 on Sat 8 Aug to 22:48 on Sun 9 Aug.

    1925-08-08T22:00:03Z → 1925-08-09T21:04:08Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:41–12:29 on the 8th, 11:41–12:29 on the 9th.

    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 8th and 48 of 48 on the 9th.

    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 37172 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Hala Ṣaṣṭhī, Bucharest, 1925: Sunday 9 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Hala Ṣaṣṭhī 1925 falls on Sunday 9 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 23:44 on Sat 8 Aug to 22:48 on Sun 9 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1925/hala-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 9 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 9 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 9 Aug
No institution has a recorded ruling for Bucharest.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/hala-shashthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

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

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 8thCoveredMadhyāhna 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:00 → 13:0411:340 min11:3448 min9 Aug
Chicago17:00 → 16:0412:320 min12:3248 min9 Aug
Jersey City18:00 → 17:0412:370 min12:3748 min9 Aug
Port of Spain18:00 → 17:0411:480 min11:4748 min9 Aug
London23:00 → 22:0412:420 min12:4148 min9 Aug
Durban00:00 → 23:0411:380 min11:3748 min9 Aug
Dubai02:00 → 01:0412:000 min12:0048 min9 Aug
Delhi03:30 → 02:3412:020 min12:0248 min9 Aug
Kolkata03:30 → 02:3411:180 min11:1848 min9 Aug
Singapore05:00 → 04:0411:460 min11:4648 min9 Aug
Sydney08:00 → 07:0411:370 min11:3748 min9 Aug
Suva10:00 → 09:0411:480 min11:4848 min9 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
hala-shashthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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