Case 15 of 26
Zi Hour and midnight
Before 23:00: the chart remains in Hai Hour
The first half of a controlled pair sits before the Zi Hour boundary.
Boundary question
Which Hour Pillar appears before 23:00 under the current convention?
At 22:45 true solar time the Hour Pillar is Gui-Hai (癸亥).
Synthetic input
Recorded facts
- Date
- 2026-06-13
- Recorded time
- 22:45
- 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
戊午
Hour
癸亥
- Day Master
- 戊
- True solar time
- 2026-06-13 22:45
- Total correction
- 0.30 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
- 2034-04-08 22:05:17
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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