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Civil hour reference · 2017-01-27 · 03:00–05:00

January 27, 2017 · 03:00–05:00 (Yin hour · Tiger)

The Yin hour · Tiger double-hour (03:00–05:00) completes Friday, January 27, 2017 with a fourth, hour pillar: 丙申 · 辛丑 · 甲寅 · 丙寅.

丙寅hour pillar · Yang Fire Tiger

Answer first: the reference four pillars for 2017-01-27, 03:00–05:00, are year 丙申, month 辛丑, day 甲寅, hour 丙寅. 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丙申Yang Fire MonkeyMonth pillar辛丑Yin Metal OxDay pillar甲寅Yang Wood TigerHour pillar丙寅Yang Fire Tiger

Deterministic record

2017-01-27 · 03:00–05:00 at a glance

Gregorian dateFriday, January 27, 2017
Double-hourYin hour · Tiger · 03:00–05:00 civil clock · branch
Year pillar丙申 · Yang Fire Monkey · Yang Fire over Metal
Month pillar辛丑 · Yin Metal Ox · Yin Metal over Earth
Day pillar甲寅 · Yang Wood Tiger · Yang Wood over Wood
Hour pillar丙寅 · Yang Fire Tiger · Yang Fire over Wood
Hour Na Yin炉中火 · 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.

丙申Year pillar

Yang Fire Monkey · Bing Shen

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

辛丑Month pillar

Yin Metal Ox · Xin Chou

The visible stem is Xin · Yin Metal; the branch is Chou · Ox · Earth. Its Na Yin is 壁上土, and the branch contains hidden stems 己 · 癸 · 辛. Open the full Jiazi record →

甲寅Day 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 →

丙寅Hour pillar

Yang Fire Tiger · Bing Yin

The visible stem is Bing · Yang Fire; the branch is Yin · Tiger · Wood. Its Na Yin is 炉中火, 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 2017-01-27 03:00–05:00

What is the hour pillar for 03:00–05:00 on Friday, January 27, 2017?

In this civil-clock reference, the 03:00–05:00 double-hour on 2017-01-27 carries the hour pillar 丙寅 (Yang Fire Tiger), completing the four-pillar record 丙申 · 辛丑 · 甲寅 · 丙寅.

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.