Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī · 1902

Thursday 13 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 157 minutes.

Decide it for

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38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Wednesday 12 February

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:09  12:57 madhyāhna ends
11:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:2113:45

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 13 February

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:09  12:57 madhyāhna ends
11:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:2113:45

48 of 48 minutes covered

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 17:12 on Wed 12 Feb to 15:34 on Thu 13 Feb.

    1902-02-12T09:11:55Z → 1902-02-13T07:33:58Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 12th, 12:09–12:57 on the 13th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 12th and 48 of 48 on the 13th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 9427 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1902: Thursday 13 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī 1902 falls on Thursday 13 February. Pañcamī runs from 17:12 on Wed 12 Feb to 15:34 on Thu 13 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1902/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 13 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 13 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 13 Feb
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/vasanta-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 5 Sri Pancami (purvaviddha), Sarasvati puja (Bengal), Vasanta pancami, Madana pancami.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 12thCoveredMadhyāhna 13thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:12 → 23:3411:4448 min11:440 min12 Feb
Chicago03:12 → 01:3411:4148 min11:410 min12 Feb
Jersey City04:12 → 02:3411:4748 min11:470 min12 Feb
Port of Spain05:12 → 03:3411:5748 min11:570 min12 Feb
London09:12 → 07:3411:5148 min11:510 min12 Feb
Durban10:42 → 09:0411:1648 min11:160 min12 Feb
Dubai12:53 → 11:1511:500 min11:500 min13 Feb
Delhi14:33 → 12:5512:030 min12:0348 min13 Feb
Kolkata14:33 → 12:5511:180 min11:1848 min13 Feb
Singapore16:07 → 14:2911:500 min11:5048 min13 Feb
Sydney19:12 → 17:3411:450 min11:4548 min13 Feb
Suva21:07 → 19:2911:520 min11:5248 min13 Feb
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vasanta-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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