Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 1973

Thursday 8 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 92 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 Wednesday 7 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 Thursday 8 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 15:48 on Wed 7 Feb to 14:28 on Thu 8 Feb.

    1973-02-07T07:47:56Z → 1973-02-08T06:28:11Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 7th, 12:09–12:57 on the 8th.

    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 7th and 48 of 48 on the 8th.

    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 5493 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1973: Thursday 8 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 1973 falls on Thursday 8 February. Pañcamī runs from 15:48 on Wed 7 Feb to 14:28 on Thu 8 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1973/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 8 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 8 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 8 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 7thCoveredMadhyāhna 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:48 → 22:2811:4348 min11:430 min7 Feb
Chicago01:48 → 00:2811:4148 min11:410 min7 Feb
Jersey City02:48 → 01:2811:4748 min11:470 min7 Feb
Port of Spain03:48 → 02:2811:5648 min11:560 min7 Feb
London07:48 → 06:2811:5148 min11:510 min7 Feb
Durban09:48 → 08:2811:4648 min11:460 min7 Feb
Dubai11:48 → 10:2812:0948 min12:090 min7 Feb
Delhi13:18 → 11:5812:110 min12:110 min8 Feb
Kolkata13:18 → 11:5811:270 min11:2731 min8 Feb
Singapore15:18 → 13:5812:250 min12:2548 min8 Feb
Sydney18:48 → 17:2812:450 min12:4548 min8 Feb
Suva19:48 → 18:2811:560 min11:5648 min8 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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