Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 1975

Sunday 16 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 608 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 15 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 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

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 23:04 on Sat 15 Feb to 01:02 on Mon 17 Feb.

    1975-02-15T15:04:11Z → 1975-02-16T17:02:28Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 15th, 12:09–12:57 on the 16th.

    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 15th and 48 of 48 on the 16th.

    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 36454 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1975: Sunday 16 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 1975 falls on Sunday 16 February. Pañcamī runs from 23:04 on Sat 15 Feb to 01:02 on Mon 17 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1975/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 16 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 16 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 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 15thCoveredMadhyāhna 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:04 → 09:0211:4348 min11:430 min15 Feb
Chicago09:04 → 11:0211:4148 min11:410 min15 Feb
Jersey City10:04 → 12:0211:4748 min11:4716 min15 Feb
Port of Spain11:04 → 13:0211:5648 min11:5648 min15 Feb
London15:04 → 17:0211:510 min11:5148 min16 Feb
Durban17:04 → 19:0211:460 min11:4648 min16 Feb
Dubai19:04 → 21:0212:090 min12:0948 min16 Feb
Delhi20:34 → 22:3212:110 min12:1148 min16 Feb
Kolkata20:34 → 22:3211:270 min11:2748 min16 Feb
Singapore22:34 → 00:3212:250 min12:2548 min16 Feb
Sydney02:04 → 04:0212:450 min12:4548 min16 Feb
Suva03:04 → 05:0211:560 min11:5648 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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