Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 2019

Sunday 10 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 119 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 Saturday 9 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

Midday of Sunday 10 February

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

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

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 14:56 on Sat 9 Feb to 16:39 on Sun 10 Feb.

    2019-02-09T06:56:02Z → 2019-02-10T08:39:10Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 9th, 12:09–12:57 on the 10th.

    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 9th and 48 of 48 on the 10th.

    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 7168 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 2019: Sunday 10 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 2019 falls on Sunday 10 February. Pañcamī runs from 14:56 on Sat 9 Feb to 16:39 on Sun 10 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2019/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 10 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 10 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 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/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 9thCoveredMadhyāhna 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:56 → 00:3911:4348 min11:430 min9 Feb
Chicago00:56 → 02:3911:4148 min11:410 min9 Feb
Jersey City01:56 → 03:3911:4748 min11:470 min9 Feb
Port of Spain02:56 → 04:3911:5648 min11:560 min9 Feb
London06:56 → 08:3911:5148 min11:510 min9 Feb
Durban08:56 → 10:3911:4648 min11:460 min9 Feb
Dubai10:56 → 12:3912:0948 min12:0930 min9 Feb
Delhi12:26 → 14:0912:1133 min12:1148 min10 Feb
Kolkata12:26 → 14:0911:270 min11:2748 min10 Feb
Singapore14:56 → 16:3912:550 min12:5548 min10 Feb
Sydney17:56 → 19:3912:450 min12:4548 min10 Feb
Suva18:56 → 20:3911:560 min11:5648 min10 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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