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Ruling · 1915 · Daqing

Vasanta Pañcamī

Wednesday 20 January1915 · Daqing, Heilongjiang, China

Determinatemargin 436 min

In Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 436 minutes.

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The two middays मध्याह्न

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes

Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Tuesday 19 January

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:27  12:15 madhyāhna ends
10:3911:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:03

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 20 January

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:27  12:15 madhyāhna ends
10:3911:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:03

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided निर्णय

  1. Step 1, Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 19:31 on Tue 19 Jan to 20:31 on Wed 20 Jan.

    1915-01-19T11:31:10Z → 1915-01-20T12:30:31Z
  2. Step 2, Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:27–12:15 on the 19th, 11:27–12:15 on the 20th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
  3. Step 3, Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 19th and 48 of 48 on the 20th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105
  4. Step 4, Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 26186 s
  5. Step 5, Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Daqing, 1915: Wednesday 20 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Vasanta Pañcamī 1915 falls on Wednesday 20 January. Pañcamī runs from 19:31 on Tue 19 Jan to 20:31 on Wed 20 Jan and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1915/vasanta-panchamipac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

never edited to agree

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 20 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 20 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 20 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/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 clocks

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 19thCoveredMadhyāhna 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:31 → 04:3111:4048 min11:400 min19 Jan
Chicago05:31 → 06:3111:3748 min11:380 min19 Jan
Jersey City06:31 → 07:3111:4348 min11:440 min19 Jan
Port of Spain07:31 → 08:3111:5348 min11:530 min19 Jan
London11:31 → 12:3111:4748 min11:4843 min19 Jan
Durban13:31 → 14:3111:420 min11:4348 min20 Jan
Dubai15:12 → 16:1211:460 min11:4748 min20 Jan
Delhi17:01 → 18:0112:080 min12:0848 min20 Jan
Kolkata17:01 → 18:0111:230 min11:2448 min20 Jan
Singapore18:31 → 19:3111:510 min11:5148 min20 Jan
Sydney21:31 → 22:3111:410 min11:4248 min20 Jan
Suva23:26 → 00:2611:480 min11:4848 min20 Jan
This ruling as JSON · ICS
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