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Civil hour reference · 1974-11-15 · 03:00–05:00

November 15, 1974 · 03:00–05:00 (Yin hour · Tiger)

The Yin hour · Tiger double-hour (03:00–05:00) completes Friday, November 15, 1974 with a fourth, hour pillar: 甲寅 · 乙亥 · 庚申 · 戊寅.

戊寅hour pillar · Yang Earth Tiger

Answer first: the reference four pillars for 1974-11-15, 03:00–05:00, are year 甲寅, month 乙亥, day 庚申, hour 戊寅. The hour stem is derived from the day stem by the standard five-rat rule. This is a deterministic calendar record, not a personal reading.

Year pillar甲寅Yang Wood TigerMonth pillar乙亥Yin Wood PigDay pillar庚申Yang Metal MonkeyHour pillar戊寅Yang Earth Tiger

Deterministic record

1974-11-15 · 03:00–05:00 at a glance

Gregorian dateFriday, November 15, 1974
Double-hourYin hour · Tiger · 03:00–05:00 civil clock · branch
Year pillar甲寅 · Yang Wood Tiger · Yang Wood over Wood
Month pillar乙亥 · Yin Wood Pig · Yin Wood over Water
Day pillar庚申 · Yang Metal Monkey · Yang Metal over Metal
Hour pillar戊寅 · Yang Earth Tiger · Yang Earth over Wood
Hour Na Yin城头土 · hidden stems 甲 · 丙 · 戊
Zi-hour conventionEarly Zi: the 23:00–01:00 double-hour is anchored to this civil date at 00:00. The late-Zi school (23:00–24:00 → next day) is a documented boundary below.

Four coordinates, four jobs

What the four reference pillars contain

Each stem-branch pair is a deterministic calendar coordinate. The hour pair inherits its branch from the double-hour and its stem from the day stem, so it stays consistent with every other hour page of this date.

甲寅Year pillar

Yang Wood Tiger · Jia Yin

The visible stem is Jia · Yang Wood; the branch is Yin · Tiger · Wood. Its Na Yin is 大溪水, and the branch contains hidden stems 甲 · 丙 · 戊. Open the full Jiazi record →

乙亥Month pillar

Yin Wood Pig · Yi Hai

The visible stem is Yi · Yin Wood; the branch is Hai · Pig · Water. Its Na Yin is 山头火, and the branch contains hidden stems 壬 · 甲. Open the full Jiazi record →

庚申Day pillar

Yang Metal Monkey · Geng Shen

The visible stem is Geng · Yang Metal; the branch is Shen · Monkey · Metal. Its Na Yin is 石榴木, and the branch contains hidden stems 庚 · 壬 · 戊. Open the full Jiazi record →

戊寅Hour pillar

Yang Earth Tiger · Wu Yin

The visible stem is Wu · Yang Earth; the branch is Yin · Tiger · Wood. Its Na Yin is 城头土, and the branch contains hidden stems 甲 · 丙 · 戊. Open the full Jiazi record →

Calculation boundary

What this hour reference does not settle

This page uses a standard civil clock so double-hours can be compared consistently across dates. A real birth happened at a place and an instant, not inside a URL slug.

  • True solar time: the reference assumes a standard-meridian civil clock. Birthplace longitude and the equation of time shift the effective hour, and can move the resolved pillar to a neighboring double-hour.
  • Hour boundary: a clock time within the correction margin of an odd-hour boundary (03:00 or 05:00) is boundary-risk until resolved against place.
  • Zi-hour school: the 23:00–01:00 slot follows the early-Zi convention. Late-Zi schools push 23:00–24:00 onto the next day pillar; neither this page nor the atlas settles that debate.
  • Interpretation: one four-pillar record does not determine personality, career, relationships, wealth, health, or events. It is a coordinate, not a verdict.

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Questions about 1974-11-15 03:00–05:00

What is the hour pillar for 03:00–05:00 on Friday, November 15, 1974?

In this civil-clock reference, the 03:00–05:00 double-hour on 1974-11-15 carries the hour pillar 戊寅 (Yang Earth Tiger), completing the four-pillar record 甲寅 · 乙亥 · 庚申 · 戊寅.

Why does the Zi hour list 23:00–01:00 as one range?

The Zi double-hour spans midnight in the classical two-segment form 23:00–01:00. This reference adopts the early-Zi convention: 00:00–01:00 belongs to the same civil date. Schools that use the late-Zi convention assign 23:00–24:00 to the next day pillar, which can change both the day and hour pillar; that difference is an open school boundary, not an error.

Is this my personal hour pillar?

Not necessarily. This page is a civil-clock reference at a standard meridian. A personal chart resolves your birthplace longitude, historical timezone, and true solar time, and any of those corrections can move the resolved hour pillar to a neighboring double-hour.

What happens near an hour boundary?

A clock time within the correction margin of an odd-hour boundary (01:00, 03:00, … 23:00) can resolve to the adjacent double-hour once longitude and equation-of-time corrections are applied. Use the calculator to see the resolved pillar and its boundary-risk flag.