Ruling · Gaṅgotpatti (Ganga Saptami) · 2022

Sunday 8 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 288 minutes.

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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 7 May

Saptamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 8 May

Taken. The only midday Saptamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 17:27 on Sat 7 May to 19:31 on Sun 8 May.

    2022-05-07T09:27:04Z → 2022-05-08T11:30:44Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 7th, 11:51–12:39 on the 8th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 7th and 48 of 48 on the 8th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 17281 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gaṅgotpatti, Baoding, 2022: Sunday 8 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gaṅgotpatti (Ganga Saptami) 2022 falls on Sunday 8 May. Saptamī runs from 17:27 on Sat 7 May to 19:31 on Sun 8 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2022/gangotpatti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 8 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 8 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 8 May
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/gangotpatti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Saptamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 7 Gangotpatti, (madhyahna vyapini, if occurs on two successive days, the first day is to be observed), Jahnu saptami, Sarkara saptami.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīMadhyāhna 7thCoveredMadhyāhna 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:27 → 04:3112:2648 min12:260 min7 May
Chicago04:27 → 06:3112:2348 min12:230 min7 May
Jersey City05:27 → 07:3112:2948 min12:290 min7 May
Port of Spain05:27 → 07:3111:3948 min11:390 min7 May
London10:27 → 12:3112:3448 min12:340 min7 May
Durban11:27 → 13:3111:2848 min11:2848 min7 May
Dubai13:27 → 15:3111:520 min11:5148 min8 May
Delhi14:57 → 17:0111:540 min11:5448 min8 May
Kolkata14:57 → 17:0111:090 min11:0948 min8 May
Singapore17:27 → 19:3112:370 min12:3748 min8 May
Sydney19:27 → 21:3111:280 min11:2848 min8 May
Suva21:27 → 23:3111:390 min11:3948 min8 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
gangotpatti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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