Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 1998

Sunday 1 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 557 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 Sunday 1 February

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:08  12:56 madhyāhna ends
11:2011:4412:0812:3212:5613:2013:44

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 2 February

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:08  12:56 madhyāhna ends
11:2011:4412:0812:3212:5613:2013:44

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 02:51 on Sun 1 Feb to 00:13 on Mon 2 Feb.

    1998-01-31T18:50:52Z → 1998-02-01T16:12:37Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:08–12:56 on the 1st, 12:08–12:56 on the 2nd.

    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 1st and 0 of 48 on the 2nd.

    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 33422 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1998: Sunday 1 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 1998 falls on Sunday 1 February. Pañcamī runs from 02:51 on Sun 1 Feb to 00:13 on Mon 2 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1998/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 1 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 1 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 1 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 31stCoveredMadhyāhna 1stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:51 → 08:1311:4348 min11:430 min31 Jan
Chicago12:51 → 10:1311:400 min11:400 min1 Feb
Jersey City13:51 → 11:1311:460 min11:460 min1 Feb
Port of Spain14:51 → 12:1311:560 min11:5617 min1 Feb
London18:51 → 16:1311:500 min11:5048 min1 Feb
Durban20:51 → 18:1311:450 min11:4548 min1 Feb
Dubai22:51 → 20:1312:080 min12:0848 min1 Feb
Delhi00:21 → 21:4312:110 min12:1148 min1 Feb
Kolkata00:21 → 21:4311:260 min11:2648 min1 Feb
Singapore02:51 → 00:1312:540 min12:5448 min1 Feb
Sydney05:51 → 03:1312:440 min12:4448 min1 Feb
Suva06:51 → 04:1311:560 min11:5648 min1 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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