Ruling · Ratha Saptamī · 2094

Saturday 23 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 20 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 Friday 22 January

Saptamī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:39 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:32
05:1505:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:03

0 of 113 minutes covered

Dawn of Saturday 23 January

Taken. The only dawn Saptamī reaches.

05:39 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:32
Saptamī ends 07:51:19
05:1505:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:03

112 of 112 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 08:58 on Fri 22 Jan to 07:51 on Sat 23 Jan.

    2094-01-22T00:57:44Z → 2094-01-22T23:51:20Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:39–07:32 on the 22nd, 05:39–07:32 on the 23rd.

    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 113 minutes on the 22nd and 112 of 112 on the 23rd.

    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 1186 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ratha Saptamī, Baoding, 2094: Saturday 23 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ratha Saptamī 2094 falls on Saturday 23 January. Saptamī runs from 08:58 on Fri 22 Jan to 07:51 on Sat 23 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2094/ratha-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 23 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 23 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 23 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/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 22ndCoveredAruṇodaya 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:58 → 15:5105:06110 min05:060 min22 Jan
Chicago18:58 → 17:5105:17115 min05:170 min22 Jan
Jersey City19:58 → 18:5105:21114 min05:200 min22 Jan
Port of Spain20:58 → 19:5104:5199 min04:510 min22 Jan
London00:58 → 23:5105:50123 min05:490 min22 Jan
Durban02:58 → 01:5103:5482 min03:550 min22 Jan
Dubai04:58 → 03:5105:20105 min05:200 min22 Jan
Delhi06:28 → 05:2105:2746 min05:270 min22 Jan
Kolkata06:28 → 05:2104:350 min04:3447 min23 Jan
Singapore08:58 → 07:5105:390 min05:3996 min23 Jan
Sydney11:58 → 10:5104:470 min04:4880 min23 Jan
Suva12:58 → 11:5104:200 min04:2088 min23 Jan
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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