Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 2016

Friday 12 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 21 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 Friday 12 February

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:09  12:57 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī begins 11:47:10
11:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:2113:45

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 13 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 11:47 on Fri 12 Feb to 09:10 on Sat 13 Feb.

    2016-02-12T03:47:10Z → 2016-02-13T01:10:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 12th, 12:09–12:57 on the 13th.

    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 12th and 0 of 48 on the 13th.

    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 1287 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 2016: Friday 12 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 2016 falls on Friday 12 February. Pañcamī runs from 11:47 on Fri 12 Feb to 09:10 on Sat 13 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2016/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 12 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 12 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 12 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 12thCoveredMadhyāhna 13thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:47 → 17:1011:4348 min11:430 min12 Feb
Chicago21:47 → 19:1011:4148 min11:410 min12 Feb
Jersey City22:47 → 20:1011:4748 min11:470 min12 Feb
Port of Spain23:47 → 21:1011:5648 min11:560 min12 Feb
London03:47 → 01:1011:5148 min11:510 min12 Feb
Durban05:47 → 03:1011:4648 min11:460 min12 Feb
Dubai07:47 → 05:1012:0948 min12:090 min12 Feb
Delhi09:17 → 06:4012:1148 min12:110 min12 Feb
Kolkata09:17 → 06:4011:2748 min11:270 min12 Feb
Singapore11:47 → 09:1012:5548 min12:550 min12 Feb
Sydney14:47 → 12:1012:450 min12:450 min13 Feb
Suva15:47 → 13:1011:560 min11:5648 min13 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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