Ruling · Śrī Pañcamī · 1915

Wednesday 20 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 398 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 Tuesday 19 January

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:05  12:53 madhyāhna ends
11:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:1713:41

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 20 January

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:05  12:53 madhyāhna ends
11:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:1713:41

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 19:31 on Tue 19 Jan to 20:31 on Wed 20 Jan.

    1915-01-19T11:31:10Z → 1915-01-20T12:30:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:05–12:53 on the 19th, 12:05–12:53 on the 20th.

    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 19th and 48 of 48 on the 20th.

    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: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 23899 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śrī Pañcamī, Baoding, 1915: Wednesday 20 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śrī Pañcamī 1915 falls on Wednesday 20 January. Pañcamī runs from 19:31 on Tue 19 Jan to 20:31 on Wed 20 Jan and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1915/shri-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 20 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 20 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 20 Jan
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/shri-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
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 19thCoveredMadhyāhna 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:31 → 04:3111:4048 min11:400 min19 Jan
Chicago05:31 → 06:3111:3748 min11:380 min19 Jan
Jersey City06:31 → 07:3111:4348 min11:440 min19 Jan
Port of Spain07:31 → 08:3111:5348 min11:530 min19 Jan
London11:31 → 12:3111:4748 min11:4843 min19 Jan
Durban13:31 → 14:3111:420 min11:4348 min20 Jan
Dubai15:12 → 16:1211:460 min11:4748 min20 Jan
Delhi17:01 → 18:0112:080 min12:0848 min20 Jan
Kolkata17:01 → 18:0111:230 min11:2448 min20 Jan
Singapore18:31 → 19:3111:510 min11:5148 min20 Jan
Sydney21:31 → 22:3111:410 min11:4248 min20 Jan
Suva23:26 → 00:2611:480 min11:4848 min20 Jan
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shri-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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