Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 1988

Saturday 23 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 495 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 Friday 22 January

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:06  12:54 madhyāhna ends
11:1811:4212:0612:3012:5413:1813:42

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 23 January

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:06  12:54 madhyāhna ends
11:1811:4212:0612:3012:5413:1813:42

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 23:36 on Fri 22 Jan to 21:09 on Sat 23 Jan.

    1988-01-22T15:35:30Z → 1988-01-23T13:08:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:06–12:54 on the 22nd, 12:06–12:54 on the 23rd.

    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 22nd and 48 of 48 on the 23rd.

    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 29676 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1988: Saturday 23 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 1988 falls on Saturday 23 January. Pañcamī runs from 23:36 on Fri 22 Jan to 21:09 on Sat 23 Jan and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1988/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 23 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 23 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 23 Jan
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 22ndCoveredMadhyāhna 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:36 → 05:0911:4148 min11:410 min22 Jan
Chicago09:36 → 07:0911:3848 min11:390 min22 Jan
Jersey City10:36 → 08:0911:4448 min11:440 min22 Jan
Port of Spain11:36 → 09:0911:5448 min11:540 min22 Jan
London15:36 → 13:0911:480 min11:4848 min23 Jan
Durban17:36 → 15:0911:430 min11:4348 min23 Jan
Dubai19:36 → 17:0912:060 min12:0748 min23 Jan
Delhi21:06 → 18:3912:090 min12:0948 min23 Jan
Kolkata21:06 → 18:3911:240 min11:2448 min23 Jan
Singapore23:36 → 21:0912:520 min12:5248 min23 Jan
Sydney02:36 → 00:0912:420 min12:4348 min23 Jan
Suva03:36 → 01:0911:540 min11:5448 min23 Jan
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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