Ruling · Ratha Saptamī · 2090

Tuesday 7 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 363 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two dawns

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise.

Dawn of Monday 6 February

Saptamī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:31 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:20
05:0705:3105:5506:1906:4307:0707:31

0 of 109 minutes covered

Dawn of Tuesday 7 February

Taken. The only dawn Saptamī reaches.

05:30 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:19
05:0605:3005:5406:1806:4207:0607:30

108 of 108 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 13:23 on Mon 6 Feb to 14:35 on Tue 7 Feb.

    2090-02-06T05:22:58Z → 2090-02-07T06:34:55Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:31–07:20 on the 6th, 05:30–07:19 on the 7th.

    arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 0 of 109 minutes on the 6th and 108 of 108 on the 7th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 21785 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ratha Saptamī, Baoding, 2090: Tuesday 7 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ratha Saptamī 2090 falls on Tuesday 7 February. Saptamī runs from 13:23 on Mon 6 Feb to 14:35 on Tue 7 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2090/ratha-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 7 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 7 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 7 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/ratha-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Saptamī
Kāla
Aruṇodaya
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 7 Ratha saptami (covering 4 ghatikas before sunrise), Acala saptami, Vidhana saptami, Arogya saptami [purvaviddha].” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīAruṇodaya 6thCoveredAruṇodaya 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:23 → 22:3505:00106 min04:590 min6 Feb
Chicago23:23 → 00:3505:07110 min05:060 min6 Feb
Jersey City00:23 → 01:3505:11110 min05:110 min6 Feb
Port of Spain01:23 → 02:3504:5198 min04:500 min6 Feb
London05:23 → 06:3505:34116 min05:3362 min6 Feb
Durban07:23 → 08:3504:050 min04:0585 min7 Feb
Dubai09:23 → 10:3505:160 min05:16103 min7 Feb
Delhi10:53 → 12:0505:220 min05:22104 min7 Feb
Kolkata10:53 → 12:0504:320 min04:31102 min7 Feb
Singapore13:23 → 14:3505:410 min05:4296 min7 Feb
Sydney16:23 → 17:3504:590 min05:0084 min7 Feb
Suva17:23 → 18:3504:270 min04:2790 min7 Feb
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ratha-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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