Case 18 of 26
Zi Hour and midnight
After corrected midnight: sect 2 changes the Day Pillar
The second corrected-time case keeps Zi Hour while advancing the day.
Boundary question
What changes after true-solar midnight under sect 2?
The Day Pillar advances to Ji-Wei (己未); the Hour Pillar remains within Zi Hour and is recalculated as Jia-Zi (甲子).
Synthetic input
Recorded facts
- Date
- 2026-06-14
- Recorded time
- 00:15
- Location
- 120°E reference meridian
- Time zone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Longitude
- 120.0000°
- Gender input
- Male
Pinned expected facts
Verified output
Year
丙午
Month
甲午
Day
己未
Hour
甲子
- Day Master
- 己
- True solar time
- 2026-06-14 00:15
- Total correction
- 0.29 minutes
- Historical offset
- UTC+08:00 · DST 0 min
- Luck direction
- 顺排
- Reference Jie
- 小暑 · 2026-07-07 09:56:57
- Luck start
- 2034-04-01 11:35:17
Conventions and limits
What this case does — and does not — prove
It verifies
Deterministic reproduction of this input under the named engine version and conventions. A pinned-field mismatch stops the production build.
It does not claim
Universal agreement across Bazi schools, interpretation of a real person, or certainty where the historical record is incomplete.
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