Ruling · Skanda Pañcamī · 2015

Tuesday 21 July

Boundaryin Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 3 min 21 s away. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

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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 Monday 20 July

Qualifies with 48 of 48 minutes. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:58  13:46 madhyāhna ends
12:1012:3412:5813:2213:4614:1014:34

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 21 July

Taken. Both middays qualify; the rule takes the second.

madhyāhna begins 12:58  13:46 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī ends 13:01:02
12:1012:3412:5813:2213:4614:1014:34

3 of 48 minutes covered, the first 3

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 10:30 on Mon 20 Jul to 13:01 on Tue 21 Jul.

    2015-07-20T07:30:12Z → 2015-07-21T10:01:02Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:58–13:46 on the 20th, 12:58–13:46 on the 21st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 20th and 3 of 48 on the 21st.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Both middays qualify. Paraviddhā: the second is taken.

    priority: paraviddha → paraviddha · margin 201 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Pañcamī, Bucharest, 2015: Tuesday 21 July.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Skanda Pañcamī 2015 falls on Tuesday 21 July. Pañcamī runs from 10:30 on Mon 20 Jul to 13:01 on Tue 21 Jul and covers 3 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday. It also reaches the previous midday for 48 minutes; by the rule the second midday is taken. It is 3 min 21 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2015/skanda-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 21 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 21 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 21 Jul
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/skanda-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 5 Skanda pancami (paraviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 20thCoveredMadhyāhna 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:30 → 03:0112:3548 min12:350 min20 Jul
Chicago02:30 → 05:0112:3348 min12:330 min20 Jul
Jersey City03:30 → 06:0112:3848 min12:380 min20 Jul
Port of Spain03:30 → 06:0111:4848 min11:480 min20 Jul
London08:30 → 11:0112:4248 min12:420 min20 Jul
Durban09:30 → 12:0111:3848 min11:3823 min21 Jul
Dubai11:30 → 14:0112:0148 min12:0148 min21 Jul
Delhi13:00 → 15:3112:030 min12:0348 min21 Jul
Kolkata13:00 → 15:3111:190 min11:1948 min21 Jul
Singapore15:30 → 18:0112:470 min12:4748 min21 Jul
Sydney17:30 → 20:0111:380 min11:3848 min21 Jul
Suva19:30 → 22:0111:490 min11:4948 min21 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
skanda-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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