Ruling · Makara Saṅkrānti · 1900

Saturday 13 January

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 600 minutes.

Decide it for

46°35′ N 125°00′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 2037860

The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day is midnight to midnight on the place’s clock.

Day of Friday 12 January

The transit does not fall in this day. Not taken.

23:59 midnightmidnight 23:59
23:3503:3507:3511:3515:3519:3523:35

Does not fall in this day

Day of Saturday 13 January

Taken. The transit falls in this day.

23:59 midnightmidnight 23:59
Sun enters Makara 09:59:55
23:3503:3507:3511:3515:3519:3523:35

Falls in this day

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    The Sun enters Makara at 09:59 on Sat 13 Jan.

    1900-01-13T01:54:13Z · nirayana, lahiri-iae1985

  2. 02

    Kāla

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

    civil-day: midnight-to-midnight · Asia/Shanghai

  3. 03

    Rule

    The festival is kept on the day of the transit, the day counted from midnight. The transit falls on the 13th, not the 12th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    day counted from midnight → only-day · margin 35996 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Makara Saṅkrānti, Daqing, 1900: Saturday 13 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Makara Saṅkrānti 1900 falls on Saturday 13 January. The Sun enters Makara at 09:59 on Sat 13 Jan, and the rule counts the day from midnight.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1900/makara-sankranti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 13 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 13 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 13 Jan
Counted from sunrise (the Orissa rule)CRC 1955, p. 244Sat 13 Jan
Past sunset, the next day (the Tamil rule)CRC 1955, p. 244Sat 13 Jan
No institution has a recorded ruling for Daqing.

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 clock times.

PlaceSun enters MakaraMidnight 13thCoveredMidnight 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:5400:00no00:00no12 Jan
Chicago19:5400:00no00:00no12 Jan
Jersey City20:5400:00no00:00no12 Jan
Port of Spain21:5400:00no00:00no12 Jan
London01:5400:00falls00:00no13 Jan
Durban03:2400:00falls00:00no13 Jan
Dubai05:3500:00falls00:00no13 Jan
Delhi07:1500:00falls00:00no13 Jan
Kolkata07:1500:00falls00:00no13 Jan
Singapore08:4900:00falls00:00no13 Jan
Sydney11:5400:00falls00:00no13 Jan
Suva13:4923:59falls23:59no13 Jan
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

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