Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī · 2002

Sunday 17 February

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 398 minutes.

Decide it for

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44°26′ N 26°06′ E · Europe/Bucharest · GeoNames 683506

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

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 17 February

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

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

48 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 19:32 on Sat 16 Feb to 21:55 on Sun 17 Feb.

    2002-02-16T17:32:20Z → 2002-02-17T19:55:08Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:06–12:54 on the 16th, 12:06–12:54 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 48 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 23901 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Bucharest, 2002: Sunday 17 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Vasanta Pañcamī 2002 falls on Sunday 17 February. Pañcamī runs from 19:32 on Sat 16 Feb to 21:55 on Sun 17 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2002/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 Bucharest.

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 Angeles09:32 → 11:5511:4348 min11:4312 min16 Feb
Chicago11:32 → 13:5511:4148 min11:4148 min16 Feb
Jersey City12:32 → 14:5511:472 min11:4748 min17 Feb
Port of Spain13:32 → 15:5511:560 min11:5648 min17 Feb
London17:32 → 19:5511:510 min11:5148 min17 Feb
Durban19:32 → 21:5511:460 min11:4648 min17 Feb
Dubai21:32 → 23:5512:090 min12:0948 min17 Feb
Delhi23:02 → 01:2512:110 min12:1148 min17 Feb
Kolkata23:02 → 01:2511:270 min11:2748 min17 Feb
Singapore01:32 → 03:5512:550 min12:5548 min17 Feb
Sydney04:32 → 06:5512:450 min12:4548 min17 Feb
Suva05:32 → 07:5511:560 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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