Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī · 1948

Sunday 15 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 402 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 Saturday 14 February

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:09  12:57 madhyāhna ends
11:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:2113:45

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 15 February

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:09  12:57 madhyāhna ends
11:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:2113:45

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 19:39 on Sat 14 Feb to 21:01 on Sun 15 Feb.

    1948-02-14T11:38:39Z → 1948-02-15T13:01:08Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 14th, 12:09–12:57 on the 15th.

    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 14th and 48 of 48 on the 15th.

    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 24114 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1948: Sunday 15 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī 1948 falls on Sunday 15 February. Pañcamī runs from 19:39 on Sat 14 Feb to 21:01 on Sun 15 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1948/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 15 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 15 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 15 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 14thCoveredMadhyāhna 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:39 → 05:0111:4448 min11:430 min14 Feb
Chicago05:39 → 07:0111:4148 min11:410 min14 Feb
Jersey City06:39 → 08:0111:4748 min11:470 min14 Feb
Port of Spain07:39 → 09:0111:5648 min11:560 min14 Feb
London11:39 → 13:0111:5148 min11:5148 min14 Feb
Durban13:39 → 15:0111:460 min11:4648 min15 Feb
Dubai15:39 → 17:0112:090 min12:0948 min15 Feb
Delhi17:09 → 18:3112:120 min12:1248 min15 Feb
Kolkata17:09 → 18:3111:270 min11:2748 min15 Feb
Singapore19:09 → 20:3112:250 min12:2548 min15 Feb
Sydney21:39 → 23:0111:450 min11:4548 min15 Feb
Suva23:39 → 01:0111:570 min11:5648 min15 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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