Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī · 1943

Tuesday 9 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 414 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 Monday 8 February

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 13:09  13:57 madhyāhna ends
12:2112:4513:0913:3313:5714:2114:45

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 9 February

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 13:09  13:57 madhyāhna ends
12:2112:4513:0913:3313:5714:2114:45

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 21:55 on Mon 8 Feb to 20:51 on Tue 9 Feb.

    1943-02-08T12:54:40Z → 1943-02-09T11:50:38Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 13:09–13:57 on the 8th, 13:09–13:57 on the 9th.

    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 8th and 48 of 48 on the 9th.

    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 24837 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1943: Tuesday 9 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī 1943 falls on Tuesday 9 February. Pañcamī runs from 21:55 on Mon 8 Feb to 20:51 on Tue 9 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1943/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 9 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 9 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 9 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 8thCoveredMadhyāhna 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:55 → 04:5112:4348 min12:430 min8 Feb
Chicago07:55 → 06:5112:4148 min12:410 min8 Feb
Jersey City08:55 → 07:5112:4748 min12:470 min8 Feb
Port of Spain09:55 → 08:5112:5648 min12:560 min8 Feb
London13:55 → 12:5112:510 min12:510 min9 Feb
Durban15:55 → 14:5112:460 min12:4648 min9 Feb
Dubai16:55 → 15:5112:090 min12:0948 min9 Feb
Delhi19:25 → 18:2113:110 min13:1248 min9 Feb
Kolkata19:25 → 18:2112:270 min12:2748 min9 Feb
Singapore21:55 → 20:5113:550 min13:5548 min9 Feb
Sydney23:55 → 22:5112:450 min12:4548 min9 Feb
Suva00:55 → 23:5111:560 min11:5648 min9 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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