Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 2014

Tuesday 4 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 155 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 Monday 3 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

Midday of Tuesday 4 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

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 17:04 on Mon 3 Feb to 15:31 on Tue 4 Feb.

    2014-02-03T09:04:27Z → 2014-02-04T07:31:15Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:08–12:56 on the 3rd, 12:08–12:56 on the 4th.

    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 3rd and 48 of 48 on the 4th.

    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 9300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 2014: Tuesday 4 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 2014 falls on Tuesday 4 February. Pañcamī runs from 17:04 on Mon 3 Feb to 15:31 on Tue 4 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2014/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 4 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 4 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 4 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 3rdCoveredMadhyāhna 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:04 → 23:3111:4348 min11:430 min3 Feb
Chicago03:04 → 01:3111:4148 min11:410 min3 Feb
Jersey City04:04 → 02:3111:4648 min11:460 min3 Feb
Port of Spain05:04 → 03:3111:5648 min11:560 min3 Feb
London09:04 → 07:3111:5148 min11:510 min3 Feb
Durban11:04 → 09:3111:4548 min11:460 min3 Feb
Dubai13:04 → 11:3112:090 min12:090 min4 Feb
Delhi14:34 → 13:0112:110 min12:1148 min4 Feb
Kolkata14:34 → 13:0111:260 min11:2748 min4 Feb
Singapore17:04 → 15:3112:540 min12:5448 min4 Feb
Sydney20:04 → 18:3112:450 min12:4548 min4 Feb
Suva21:04 → 19:3111:560 min11:5648 min4 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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