Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 2043

Saturday 14 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 325 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 Friday 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

Midday of Saturday 14 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 20:41 on Fri 13 Feb to 18:22 on Sat 14 Feb.

    2043-02-13T12:40:56Z → 2043-02-14T10:21:59Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 13th, 12:09–12:57 on the 14th.

    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 13th and 48 of 48 on the 14th.

    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 19524 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 2043: Saturday 14 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 2043 falls on Saturday 14 February. Pañcamī runs from 20:41 on Fri 13 Feb to 18:22 on Sat 14 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2043/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 14 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 14 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 14 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 13thCoveredMadhyāhna 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:41 → 02:2211:4348 min11:430 min13 Feb
Chicago06:41 → 04:2211:4148 min11:410 min13 Feb
Jersey City07:41 → 05:2211:4748 min11:470 min13 Feb
Port of Spain08:41 → 06:2211:5648 min11:560 min13 Feb
London12:41 → 10:2211:510 min11:510 min14 Feb
Durban14:41 → 12:2211:460 min11:4636 min14 Feb
Dubai16:41 → 14:2212:090 min12:0948 min14 Feb
Delhi18:11 → 15:5212:110 min12:1148 min14 Feb
Kolkata18:11 → 15:5211:270 min11:2748 min14 Feb
Singapore20:41 → 18:2212:550 min12:5548 min14 Feb
Sydney23:41 → 21:2212:450 min12:4548 min14 Feb
Suva00:41 → 22:2211:560 min11:5648 min14 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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