Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 2097

Sunday 17 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 11 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 Saturday 16 February

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:09  12:57 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī begins 13:37:01
11:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:2113:45

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 17 February

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:09  12:57 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī ends 12:19:34
11:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:2113:45

11 of 48 minutes covered, the first 11

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 13:37 on Sat 16 Feb to 12:20 on Sun 17 Feb.

    2097-02-16T05:37:02Z → 2097-02-17T04:19:35Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 16th, 12:09–12:57 on the 17th.

    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 16th and 11 of 48 on the 17th.

    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 661 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 2097: Sunday 17 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 2097 falls on Sunday 17 February. Pañcamī runs from 13:37 on Sat 16 Feb to 12:20 on Sun 17 Feb and covers 11 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2097/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 17 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 17 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 17 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/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 16thCoveredMadhyāhna 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:37 → 20:2011:4348 min11:430 min16 Feb
Chicago23:37 → 22:2011:4148 min11:410 min16 Feb
Jersey City00:37 → 23:2011:4748 min11:470 min16 Feb
Port of Spain01:37 → 00:2011:5648 min11:560 min16 Feb
London05:37 → 04:2011:5148 min11:510 min16 Feb
Durban07:37 → 06:2011:4648 min11:460 min16 Feb
Dubai09:37 → 08:2012:0948 min12:090 min16 Feb
Delhi11:07 → 09:5012:1148 min12:110 min16 Feb
Kolkata11:07 → 09:5011:2748 min11:270 min16 Feb
Singapore13:37 → 12:2012:556 min12:550 min16 Feb
Sydney16:37 → 15:2012:450 min12:4548 min17 Feb
Suva17:37 → 16:2011:560 min11:5648 min17 Feb
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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