Case 03 of 26

Solar-term boundaries

Before Jingzhe: the Yin month remains

March 4 is still inside the solar month that began at Lichun.

Boundary question

Does the Month Pillar change merely because the Gregorian month says March?

No. Before Jingzhe, the Month Pillar remains Geng-Yin (庚寅).

Synthetic input

Recorded facts

Date
2026-03-04
Recorded time
12:00
Location
120°E reference meridian
Time zone
Asia/Shanghai
Longitude
120.0000°
Gender input
Male

Pinned expected facts

Verified output

build verified

Year

丙午

Month

庚寅

Day

丁丑

Hour

丙午

Day Master
True solar time
2026-03-04 11:47
Total correction
-12.34 minutes
Historical offset
UTC+08:00 · DST 0 min
Luck direction
顺排
Reference Jie
惊蛰 · 2026-03-05 21:59:00
Luck start
2026-08-25 10:29:39

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.

tyme4ts 1.5.2 · cantian-tymext 0.0.27 · sect 2 day boundary · BaziCalculator.ai NOAA/IANA true-solar adapter
calculation-benchmarks-v1 · reviewed 2026-09-05