Ruling · Śrī Pañcamī · 1926

Monday 18 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 564 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 Sunday 17 January

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:04  12:52 madhyāhna ends
11:1611:4012:0412:2812:5213:1613:40

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 18 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 00:52 on Mon 18 Jan to 22:17 on Mon 18 Jan.

    1926-01-17T16:52:22Z → 1926-01-18T14:16:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:04–12:52 on the 17th, 12:05–12:53 on the 18th.

    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 17th and 48 of 48 on the 18th.

    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 33834 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śrī Pañcamī, Baoding, 1926: Monday 18 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śrī Pañcamī 1926 falls on Monday 18 January. Pañcamī runs from 00:52 on Mon 18 Jan to 22:17 on Mon 18 Jan and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1926/shri-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 18 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 18 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 18 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 17thCoveredMadhyāhna 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:52 → 06:1711:3948 min11:400 min17 Jan
Chicago10:52 → 08:1711:3748 min11:370 min17 Jan
Jersey City11:52 → 09:1711:4338 min11:430 min17 Jan
Port of Spain12:52 → 10:1711:520 min11:530 min18 Jan
London16:52 → 14:1711:470 min11:4748 min18 Jan
Durban18:52 → 16:1711:420 min11:4248 min18 Jan
Dubai20:52 → 18:1712:050 min12:0548 min18 Jan
Delhi22:22 → 19:4712:070 min12:0848 min18 Jan
Kolkata22:22 → 19:4711:230 min11:2348 min18 Jan
Singapore23:52 → 21:1711:510 min11:5148 min18 Jan
Sydney02:52 → 00:1711:410 min11:4148 min18 Jan
Suva04:52 → 02:1711:520 min11:5248 min18 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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