Ruling · Hala Ṣaṣṭhī · 2016

Tuesday 23 August

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 507 minutes.

Decide it for

BucharestDelhiKolkataSingaporeSydneyJersey City

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 22 August

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:54  13:42 madhyāhna ends
12:0612:3012:5413:1813:4214:0614:30

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 23 August

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:54  13:42 madhyāhna ends
12:0612:3012:5413:1813:4214:0614:30

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 00:39 on Tue 23 Aug to 22:09 on Tue 23 Aug.

    2016-08-22T21:39:19Z → 2016-08-23T19:09:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:54–13:42 on the 22nd, 12:54–13:42 on the 23rd.

    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 22nd and 48 of 48 on the 23rd.

    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 30442 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Hala Ṣaṣṭhī, Bucharest, 2016: Tuesday 23 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Hala Ṣaṣṭhī 2016 falls on Tuesday 23 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 00:39 on Tue 23 Aug to 22:09 on Tue 23 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2016/hala-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 23 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 23 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 23 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 22ndCoveredMadhyāhna 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:39 → 12:0912:310 min12:310 min23 Aug
Chicago16:39 → 14:0912:290 min12:2948 min23 Aug
Jersey City17:39 → 15:0912:350 min12:3448 min23 Aug
Port of Spain17:39 → 15:0911:450 min11:4448 min23 Aug
London22:39 → 20:0912:390 min12:3848 min23 Aug
Durban23:39 → 21:0911:350 min11:3548 min23 Aug
Dubai01:39 → 23:0911:570 min11:5748 min23 Aug
Delhi03:09 → 00:3912:000 min11:5948 min23 Aug
Kolkata03:09 → 00:3911:150 min11:1548 min23 Aug
Singapore05:39 → 03:0912:430 min12:4348 min23 Aug
Sydney07:39 → 05:0911:340 min11:3448 min23 Aug
Suva09:39 → 07:0911:450 min11:4548 min23 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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