Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 2066

Saturday 30 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 544 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Friday 29 January

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 Saturday 30 January

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 22:00 on Fri 29 Jan to 22:09 on Sat 30 Jan.

    2066-01-29T13:59:42Z → 2066-01-30T14:08:55Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:08–12:56 on the 29th, 12:08–12:56 on the 30th.

    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 29th and 48 of 48 on the 30th.

    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 32652 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 2066: Saturday 30 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 2066 falls on Saturday 30 January. Pañcamī runs from 22:00 on Fri 29 Jan to 22:09 on Sat 30 Jan and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2066/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 30 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 30 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 30 Jan
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 29thCoveredMadhyāhna 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles06:00 → 06:0911:4248 min11:430 min29 Jan
Chicago08:00 → 08:0911:4048 min11:400 min29 Jan
Jersey City09:00 → 09:0911:4648 min11:460 min29 Jan
Port of Spain10:00 → 10:0911:5548 min11:560 min29 Jan
London14:00 → 14:0911:500 min11:5048 min30 Jan
Durban16:00 → 16:0911:450 min11:4548 min30 Jan
Dubai18:00 → 18:0912:080 min12:0848 min30 Jan
Delhi19:30 → 19:3912:100 min12:1148 min30 Jan
Kolkata19:30 → 19:3911:260 min11:2648 min30 Jan
Singapore22:00 → 22:0912:540 min12:5448 min30 Jan
Sydney01:00 → 01:0912:440 min12:4448 min30 Jan
Suva02:00 → 02:0911:550 min11:5548 min30 Jan
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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