Ruling · Nāga Pañcamī · 1983

Saturday 13 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 33 minutes.

Decide it for

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 Friday 12 August

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:59  12:47 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī begins 13:19:45
11:1111:3511:5912:2312:4713:1113:35

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 13 August

Taken. Pañcamī reaches neither midday; the rule takes the second day.

madhyāhna begins 11:59  12:47 madhyāhna ends
11:1111:3511:5912:2312:4713:1113:35

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 13:20 on Fri 12 Aug to 11:03 on Sat 13 Aug.

    1983-08-12T05:19:46Z → 1983-08-13T03:03:04Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:59–12:47 on the 12th, 11:59–12:47 on the 13th.

    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 12th and 0 of 48 on the 13th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Neither midday qualifies. The rule takes the second day.

    priority: paraviddha → second-day · margin 1968 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Nāga Pañcamī, Baoding, 1983: Saturday 13 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Nāga Pañcamī 1983 falls on Saturday 13 August. Pañcamī runs from 13:20 on Fri 12 Aug to 11:03 on Sat 13 Aug, and reaches madhyāhna on neither day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1983/naga-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 13 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 13 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 13 Aug
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/naga-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 5 Naga pancami (paraviddha)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 12thCoveredMadhyāhna 13thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:20 → 20:0312:3448 min12:340 min12 Aug
Chicago00:20 → 22:0312:3148 min12:310 min12 Aug
Jersey City01:20 → 23:0312:3748 min12:370 min12 Aug
Port of Spain01:20 → 23:0311:4748 min11:470 min12 Aug
London06:20 → 04:0312:4148 min12:410 min12 Aug
Durban07:20 → 05:0311:3748 min11:370 min12 Aug
Dubai09:20 → 07:0312:0048 min12:000 min12 Aug
Delhi10:50 → 08:3312:0248 min12:020 min12 Aug
Kolkata10:50 → 08:3311:1848 min11:170 min12 Aug
Singapore13:20 → 11:0312:4614 min12:460 min12 Aug
Sydney15:20 → 13:0311:360 min11:3648 min13 Aug
Suva17:20 → 15:0311:480 min11:4748 min13 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
naga-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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