Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 1956

Thursday 16 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 232 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 Thursday 16 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

Midday of Friday 17 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

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 08:16 on Thu 16 Feb to 07:56 on Fri 17 Feb.

    1956-02-16T00:16:18Z → 1956-02-16T23:56:25Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 16th, 12:09–12:57 on the 17th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 16th and 0 of 48 on the 17th.

    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 13941 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1956: Thursday 16 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 1956 falls on Thursday 16 February. Pañcamī runs from 08:16 on Thu 16 Feb to 07:56 on Fri 17 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1956/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 16 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 16 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 16 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 16thCoveredMadhyāhna 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:16 → 15:5611:4348 min11:430 min16 Feb
Chicago18:16 → 17:5611:4148 min11:410 min16 Feb
Jersey City19:16 → 18:5611:4748 min11:470 min16 Feb
Port of Spain20:16 → 19:5611:5648 min11:560 min16 Feb
London00:16 → 23:5611:5148 min11:510 min16 Feb
Durban02:16 → 01:5611:4648 min11:460 min16 Feb
Dubai04:16 → 03:5612:0948 min12:090 min16 Feb
Delhi05:46 → 05:2612:1148 min12:110 min16 Feb
Kolkata05:46 → 05:2611:2748 min11:270 min16 Feb
Singapore07:46 → 07:2612:2548 min12:250 min16 Feb
Sydney10:16 → 09:5611:4548 min11:450 min16 Feb
Suva12:16 → 11:5611:5628 min11:560 min16 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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