Ruling · Ratha Saptamī · 1945

Saturday 20 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 397 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two dawns

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise.

Dawn of Saturday 20 January

Taken. The only dawn Saptamī reaches.

06:40 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 08:34
06:1606:4007:0407:2807:5208:1608:4009:04

113 of 113 minutes covered

Dawn of Sunday 21 January

Saptamī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

06:40 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 08:33
06:1606:4007:0407:2807:5208:1608:4009:04

0 of 113 minutes covered

Saptamī presentAruṇodaya, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 00:04 on Sat 20 Jan to 21:50 on Sat 20 Jan.

    1945-01-19T15:03:50Z → 1945-01-20T12:49:35Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 06:40–08:34 on the 20th, 06:40–08:33 on the 21st.

    arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 113 of 113 minutes on the 20th and 0 of 113 on the 21st.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 23799 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ratha Saptamī, Baoding, 1945: Saturday 20 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ratha Saptamī 1945 falls on Saturday 20 January. Saptamī runs from 00:04 on Sat 20 Jan to 21:50 on Sat 20 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1945/ratha-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 20 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 20 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 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/ratha-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 7 Ratha saptami (covering 4 ghatikas before sunrise), Acala saptami, Vidhana saptami, Arogya saptami [purvaviddha].” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīAruṇodaya 19thCoveredAruṇodaya 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:04 → 05:5006:070 min06:070 min19 Jan
Chicago10:04 → 07:5006:190 min06:1891 min20 Jan
Jersey City11:04 → 08:5006:220 min06:22114 min20 Jan
Port of Spain12:04 → 09:5005:500 min05:5099 min20 Jan
London16:04 → 13:5006:520 min06:52124 min20 Jan
Durban17:04 → 14:5003:510 min03:5282 min20 Jan
Dubai19:04 → 16:5005:200 min05:20106 min20 Jan
Delhi21:34 → 19:2006:270 min06:27107 min20 Jan
Kolkata21:34 → 19:2005:350 min05:35104 min20 Jan
Singapore00:04 → 21:5006:380 min06:3896 min20 Jan
Sydney01:04 → 22:5003:440 min03:4580 min20 Jan
Suva03:04 → 00:5004:180 min04:1888 min20 Jan
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ratha-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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