Ruling · Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī · 1946

Saturday 30 November

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 150 minutes.

Decide it for

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46°35′ N 125°00′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 2037860

The two middays

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

Midday of Friday 29 November

Ṣaṣṭhī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:04  11:52 madhyāhna ends
10:1610:4011:0411:2811:5212:1612:40

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 30 November

Taken. The only midday Ṣaṣṭhī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:04  11:52 madhyāhna ends
10:1610:4011:0411:2811:5212:1612:40

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 14:22 on Fri 29 Nov to 16:13 on Sat 30 Nov.

    1946-11-29T06:22:17Z → 1946-11-30T08:13:16Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:04–11:52 on the 29th, 11:04–11:52 on the 30th.

    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 29th and 48 of 48 on the 30th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 9021 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī, Daqing, 1946: Saturday 30 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī 1946 falls on Saturday 30 November. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 14:22 on Fri 29 Nov to 16:13 on Sat 30 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1946/skanda-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 30 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 30 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 30 Nov
No institution has a recorded ruling for Daqing.

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

The rule, as data

/rules/skanda-shashthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Mārgaśīrṣa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 6 Campa sasthi (Maharashtra) (paraviddha). (Special when combined with naksatra Satabhisaj, yoga Vyatipata and Sunday), Skanda sasthi (purvaviddha), Guha sasthi” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMadhyāhna 29thCoveredMadhyāhna 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:22 → 00:1311:1748 min11:180 min29 Nov
Chicago00:22 → 02:1311:1548 min11:150 min29 Nov
Jersey City01:22 → 03:1311:2048 min11:210 min29 Nov
Port of Spain02:22 → 04:1311:3048 min11:310 min29 Nov
London06:22 → 08:1311:2548 min11:250 min29 Nov
Durban08:22 → 10:1311:2048 min11:210 min29 Nov
Dubai10:22 → 12:1311:4348 min11:4330 min29 Nov
Delhi11:52 → 13:4311:4541 min11:4548 min29 Nov
Kolkata11:52 → 13:4311:010 min11:0148 min30 Nov
Singapore13:52 → 15:4311:590 min11:5948 min30 Nov
Sydney16:22 → 18:1311:190 min11:2048 min30 Nov
Suva18:22 → 20:1311:300 min11:3148 min30 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
skanda-shashthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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