Ruling · Nāga Pañcamī · 2010

Saturday 14 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 319 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 13 August

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

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

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 14 August

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

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

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 20:48 on Fri 13 Aug to 18:06 on Sat 14 Aug.

    2010-08-13T12:48:23Z → 2010-08-14T10:05:37Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:59–12:47 on the 13th, 11:59–12:47 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 0 of 48 minutes on the 13th and 48 of 48 on the 14th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 19141 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Nāga Pañcamī, Baoding, 2010: Saturday 14 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Nāga Pañcamī 2010 falls on Saturday 14 August. Pañcamī runs from 20:48 on Fri 13 Aug to 18:06 on Sat 14 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2010/naga-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 14 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 14 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 14 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 13thCoveredMadhyāhna 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:48 → 03:0612:3448 min12:330 min13 Aug
Chicago07:48 → 05:0612:3148 min12:310 min13 Aug
Jersey City08:48 → 06:0612:3748 min12:370 min13 Aug
Port of Spain08:48 → 06:0611:4748 min11:470 min13 Aug
London13:48 → 11:0612:410 min12:410 min14 Aug
Durban14:48 → 12:0611:370 min11:3729 min14 Aug
Dubai16:48 → 14:0612:000 min11:5948 min14 Aug
Delhi18:18 → 15:3612:020 min12:0248 min14 Aug
Kolkata18:18 → 15:3611:170 min11:1748 min14 Aug
Singapore20:48 → 18:0612:460 min12:4548 min14 Aug
Sydney22:48 → 20:0611:360 min11:3648 min14 Aug
Suva00:48 → 22:0611:470 min11:4748 min14 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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