Ruling · Nāga Pañcamī · 1939

Saturday 19 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 418 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 Friday 18 August

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:58  12:46 madhyāhna ends
11:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:1013:34

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 19 August

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:58  12:46 madhyāhna ends
11:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:1013:34

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 21:59 on Fri 18 Aug to 19:44 on Sat 19 Aug.

    1939-08-18T13:58:33Z → 1939-08-19T11:43:54Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:58–12:46 on the 18th, 11:58–12:46 on the 19th.

    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 18th and 48 of 48 on the 19th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 25097 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Nāga Pañcamī, Baoding, 1939: Saturday 19 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Nāga Pañcamī 1939 falls on Saturday 19 August. Pañcamī runs from 21:59 on Fri 18 Aug to 19:44 on Sat 19 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1939/naga-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 19 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 19 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 19 Aug
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/naga-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 5 Naga pancami (paraviddha)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 18thCoveredMadhyāhna 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:59 → 03:4411:3348 min11:320 min18 Aug
Chicago08:59 → 06:4412:3048 min12:300 min18 Aug
Jersey City09:59 → 07:4412:3648 min12:360 min18 Aug
Port of Spain09:59 → 07:4411:4648 min11:460 min18 Aug
London14:59 → 12:4412:400 min12:404 min19 Aug
Durban15:59 → 13:4411:360 min11:3648 min19 Aug
Dubai17:59 → 15:4411:590 min11:5848 min19 Aug
Delhi19:29 → 17:1412:010 min12:0148 min19 Aug
Kolkata19:29 → 17:1411:160 min11:1648 min19 Aug
Singapore21:19 → 19:0412:050 min12:0448 min19 Aug
Sydney23:59 → 21:4411:350 min11:3548 min19 Aug
Suva01:59 → 23:4411:460 min11:4648 min19 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
naga-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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