Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 1986

Thursday 13 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 138 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Thursday 13 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 14 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 08:15 on Thu 13 Feb to 09:51 on Fri 14 Feb.

    1986-02-13T00:14:58Z → 1986-02-14T01:50:42Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 13th, 12:09–12:57 on the 14th.

    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 13th and 0 of 48 on the 14th.

    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 8276 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1986: Thursday 13 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 1986 falls on Thursday 13 February. Pañcamī runs from 08:15 on Thu 13 Feb to 09:51 on Fri 14 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1986/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 13 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 13 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 13 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 13thCoveredMadhyāhna 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:15 → 17:5111:4348 min11:430 min13 Feb
Chicago18:15 → 19:5111:4148 min11:410 min13 Feb
Jersey City19:15 → 20:5111:4748 min11:470 min13 Feb
Port of Spain20:15 → 21:5111:5648 min11:560 min13 Feb
London00:15 → 01:5111:5148 min11:510 min13 Feb
Durban02:15 → 03:5111:4648 min11:460 min13 Feb
Dubai04:15 → 05:5112:0948 min12:090 min13 Feb
Delhi05:45 → 07:2112:1248 min12:110 min13 Feb
Kolkata05:45 → 07:2111:2748 min11:270 min13 Feb
Singapore08:15 → 09:5112:5548 min12:550 min13 Feb
Sydney11:15 → 12:5112:4548 min12:456 min13 Feb
Suva12:15 → 13:5111:5629 min11:5648 min14 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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