Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 1962

Friday 9 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 175 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 8 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 Friday 9 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 18:33 on Thu 8 Feb to 15:52 on Fri 9 Feb.

    1962-02-08T10:32:38Z → 1962-02-09T07:51:48Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 8th, 12:09–12:57 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 10508 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1962: Friday 9 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 1962 falls on Friday 9 February. Pañcamī runs from 18:33 on Thu 8 Feb to 15:52 on Fri 9 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1962/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 9 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 9 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 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 Angeles02:33 → 23:5211:4348 min11:430 min8 Feb
Chicago04:33 → 01:5211:4148 min11:410 min8 Feb
Jersey City05:33 → 02:5211:4748 min11:470 min8 Feb
Port of Spain06:33 → 03:5211:5648 min11:560 min8 Feb
London10:33 → 07:5211:5148 min11:510 min8 Feb
Durban12:33 → 09:5211:461 min11:460 min8 Feb
Dubai14:33 → 11:5212:090 min12:090 min9 Feb
Delhi16:03 → 13:2212:110 min12:1248 min9 Feb
Kolkata16:03 → 13:2211:270 min11:2748 min9 Feb
Singapore18:03 → 15:2212:250 min12:2548 min9 Feb
Sydney20:33 → 17:5211:450 min11:4548 min9 Feb
Suva22:33 → 19:5211:560 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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