Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 2094

Thursday 21 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 24 minutes.

Decide it for

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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 Wednesday 20 January

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:06  12:54 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī begins 13:17:46
11:1811:4212:0612:3012:5413:1813:42

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 21 January

Taken. Pañcamī reaches neither midday; the rule takes the second day.

madhyāhna begins 12:06  12:54 madhyāhna ends
11:1811:4212:0612:3012:5413:1813:42

0 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 13:18 on Wed 20 Jan to 10:48 on Thu 21 Jan.

    2094-01-20T05:17:46Z → 2094-01-21T02:48:11Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:06–12:54 on the 20th, 12:06–12:54 on the 21st.

    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 20th and 0 of 48 on the 21st.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Neither midday qualifies. The rule takes the second day.

    priority: unstated → second-day · margin 1454 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 2094: Thursday 21 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 2094 falls on Thursday 21 January. Pañcamī runs from 13:18 on Wed 20 Jan to 10:48 on Thu 21 Jan, and reaches madhyāhna on neither day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2094/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 21 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 21 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 20 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 20thCoveredMadhyāhna 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:18 → 18:4811:4148 min11:410 min20 Jan
Chicago23:18 → 20:4811:3848 min11:380 min20 Jan
Jersey City00:18 → 21:4811:4448 min11:440 min20 Jan
Port of Spain01:18 → 22:4811:5348 min11:540 min20 Jan
London05:18 → 02:4811:4848 min11:480 min20 Jan
Durban07:18 → 04:4811:4348 min11:430 min20 Jan
Dubai09:18 → 06:4812:0648 min12:060 min20 Jan
Delhi10:48 → 08:1812:0848 min12:090 min20 Jan
Kolkata10:48 → 08:1811:2448 min11:240 min20 Jan
Singapore13:18 → 10:4812:5222 min12:520 min20 Jan
Sydney16:18 → 13:4812:420 min12:4248 min21 Jan
Suva17:18 → 14:4811:530 min11:5448 min21 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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