Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 1989

Friday 10 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 549 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 Friday 10 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 Saturday 11 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 02:59 on Fri 10 Feb to 00:15 on Sat 11 Feb.

    1989-02-09T18:59:24Z → 1989-02-10T16:14:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 10th, 12:09–12:57 on the 11th.

    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 10th and 0 of 48 on the 11th.

    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 32956 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1989: Friday 10 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 1989 falls on Friday 10 February. Pañcamī runs from 02:59 on Fri 10 Feb to 00:15 on Sat 11 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1989/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 10 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 10 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 10 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 9thCoveredMadhyāhna 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:59 → 08:1511:4348 min11:430 min9 Feb
Chicago12:59 → 10:1511:410 min11:410 min10 Feb
Jersey City13:59 → 11:1511:470 min11:470 min10 Feb
Port of Spain14:59 → 12:1511:560 min11:5618 min10 Feb
London18:59 → 16:1511:510 min11:5148 min10 Feb
Durban20:59 → 18:1511:460 min11:4648 min10 Feb
Dubai22:59 → 20:1512:090 min12:0948 min10 Feb
Delhi00:29 → 21:4512:110 min12:1248 min10 Feb
Kolkata00:29 → 21:4511:270 min11:2748 min10 Feb
Singapore02:59 → 00:1512:550 min12:5548 min10 Feb
Sydney05:59 → 03:1512:450 min12:4548 min10 Feb
Suva06:59 → 04:1511:560 min11:5648 min10 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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