Ruling · Ratha Saptamī · 2011

Thursday 10 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 177 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two dawns

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise.

Dawn of Thursday 10 February

Taken. The only dawn Saptamī reaches.

05:29 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:16
05:0505:2905:5306:1706:4107:0507:29

108 of 108 minutes covered

Dawn of Friday 11 February

Saptamī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:28 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:15
05:0405:2805:5206:1606:4007:0407:28

0 of 108 minutes covered

Saptamī presentAruṇodaya, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 00:32 on Thu 10 Feb to 02:31 on Fri 11 Feb.

    2011-02-09T16:31:41Z → 2011-02-10T18:30:56Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:29–07:16 on the 10th, 05:28–07:15 on the 11th.

    arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 108 of 108 minutes on the 10th and 0 of 108 on the 11th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 10609 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ratha Saptamī, Baoding, 2011: Thursday 10 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ratha Saptamī 2011 falls on Thursday 10 February. Saptamī runs from 00:32 on Thu 10 Feb to 02:31 on Fri 11 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2011/ratha-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 10 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 10 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 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/ratha-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Saptamī
Kāla
Aruṇodaya
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 7 Ratha saptami (covering 4 ghatikas before sunrise), Acala saptami, Vidhana saptami, Arogya saptami [purvaviddha].” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīAruṇodaya 9thCoveredAruṇodaya 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:32 → 10:3104:580 min04:57106 min10 Feb
Chicago10:32 → 12:3105:050 min05:04109 min10 Feb
Jersey City11:32 → 13:3105:090 min05:09109 min10 Feb
Port of Spain12:32 → 14:3104:500 min04:5098 min10 Feb
London16:32 → 18:3105:310 min05:30115 min10 Feb
Durban18:32 → 20:3104:060 min04:0686 min10 Feb
Dubai20:32 → 22:3105:150 min05:15103 min10 Feb
Delhi22:02 → 00:0105:210 min05:20104 min10 Feb
Kolkata22:02 → 00:0104:310 min04:30102 min10 Feb
Singapore00:32 → 02:3105:410 min05:4195 min10 Feb
Sydney03:32 → 05:3105:000 min05:0184 min10 Feb
Suva05:32 → 07:3105:270 min05:2886 min11 Feb
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ratha-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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