Ruling · Makara Saṅkrānti (Makarādi Snāna) · 2072

Friday 15 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 676 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day is midnight to midnight on the place’s clock.

Day of Friday 15 January

Taken. The transit falls in this day.

00:00 midnightmidnight 00:00
Sun enters Makara 12:44:06
23:3603:3607:3611:3615:3619:3623:36

Falls in this day

Day of Saturday 16 January

The transit does not fall in this day. Not taken.

00:00 midnightmidnight 00:00
23:3603:3607:3611:3615:3619:3623:36

Does not fall in this day

The day, the window the rule readsThe instant the Sun enters Makara

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    The Sun enters Makara at 12:44 on Fri 15 Jan.

    2072-01-15T04:44:07Z · nirayana, lahiri-iae1985

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day is counted from midnight to midnight, on the clock of Baoding.

    civil-day: midnight-to-midnight · Asia/Shanghai

  3. 03

    Rule

    The festival is kept on the day of the transit, the day counted from midnight. The transit falls on the 15th, not the 16th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    An instant falls in one day and no other. No tie-break is needed.

    day counted from midnight → only-day · margin 40553 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Makara Saṅkrānti, Baoding, 2072: Friday 15 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Makara Saṅkrānti 2072 falls on Friday 15 January. The Sun enters Makara at 12:44 on Fri 15 Jan, and the rule counts the day from midnight.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2072/makara-sankranti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 15 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 15 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 15 Jan
Counted from sunrise (the Orissa rule)CRC 1955, p. 244Fri 15 Jan
Past sunset, the next day (the Tamil rule)CRC 1955, p. 244Fri 15 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/makara-sankranti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Sign entered
Makara
Zodiac
Nirayana
Ayanāṃśa
lahiri-iae1985
Day counted from
Midnight
Tie-break
None: an instant
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 106

“Makaradi — Makaradi snana, Magh Bihu (Assam), Tila samkranti, Pongal (S. India), Bhogi (S. India — on the day before Pongal), Mattu Pongal (S. India — on the day after Pongal).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106. “The following festivals are observed according to the day of Sun's transit into rasis (Ravi-samkramana). For this purpose the day has been taken to begin from midnight, i.e., when the samkramana takes place after midnight, the festival relating to the samkramana is to be observed on the following day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSun enters MakaraMidnight 15thCoveredMidnight 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:4400:00no00:00no14 Jan
Chicago22:4400:00no00:00no14 Jan
Jersey City23:4400:00no00:00no14 Jan
Port of Spain00:4400:00falls00:00no15 Jan
London04:4400:00falls00:00no15 Jan
Durban06:4400:00falls00:00no15 Jan
Dubai08:4400:00falls00:00no15 Jan
Delhi10:1400:00falls00:00no15 Jan
Kolkata10:1400:00falls00:00no15 Jan
Singapore12:4400:00falls00:00no15 Jan
Sydney15:4400:00falls00:00no15 Jan
Suva16:4400:00falls00:00no15 Jan
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
makara-sankranti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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