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Ruling · 1990 · Bucharest

Makara Saṅkrānti

Sunday 14 January1990 · Bucharest, Romania

Determinatemargin 361 min

In Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 361 minutes.

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The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours

The day is midnight to midnight on the place’s clock.

Day of Saturday 13 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

Day of Sunday 14 January

Taken. The transit falls in this day.

00:00 midnightmidnight 00:00
Sun enters Makara 06:01:14
23:3603:3607:3611:3615:3619:3623:36

Falls in this day

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

How it was decided निर्णय

  1. Step 1, Aṅga

    The Sun enters Makara at 06:01 on Sun 14 Jan.

    1990-01-14T04:01:14Z · nirayana, lahiri-iae1985
  2. Step 2, Kāla

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

    civil-day: midnight-to-midnight · Europe/Bucharest
  3. Step 3, Rule

    The festival is kept on the day of the transit, the day counted from midnight. The transit falls on the 14th, not the 13th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106
  4. Step 4, Tie-break

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

    day counted from midnight → only-day · margin 21674 s
  5. Step 5, Ruling

    Makara Saṅkrānti, Bucharest, 1990: Sunday 14 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Makara Saṅkrānti 1990 falls on Sunday 14 January. The Sun enters Makara at 06:01 on Sun 14 Jan, and the rule counts the day from midnight. Counted from sunrise, as in Orissa, it is 13 January.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1990/makara-sankrantipac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

never edited to agree

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 14 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 14 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 14 Jan
Counted from sunrise (the Orissa rule)CRC 1955, p. 244Sat 13 Jan
Past sunset, the next day (the Tamil rule)CRC 1955, p. 244Sun 14 Jan
No institution has a recorded ruling for Bucharest.

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 clocks

PlaceSun enters MakaraMidnight 14thCoveredMidnight 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:0100:00no00:00no13 Jan
Chicago22:0100:00no00:00no13 Jan
Jersey City23:0100:00no00:00no13 Jan
Port of Spain00:0100:00falls00:00no14 Jan
London04:0100:00falls00:00no14 Jan
Durban06:0100:00falls00:00no14 Jan
Dubai08:0100:00falls00:00no14 Jan
Delhi09:3100:00falls00:00no14 Jan
Kolkata09:3100:00falls00:00no14 Jan
Singapore12:0100:00falls00:00no14 Jan
Sydney15:0100:00falls00:00no14 Jan
Suva16:0100:00falls00:00no14 Jan
This ruling as JSON · ICS
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