Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2032

Sunday 28 March

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 197 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two sunrises

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The sunrise is read as upper limb, 31′ + 16′.

Sunrise of Saturday 27 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

05:29 sunrise
04:1704:4105:0505:2905:5306:1706:41

Absent at sunrise

Sunrise of Sunday 28 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

05:27 sunrise
04:1504:3905:0305:2705:5106:1506:39

Holds at sunrise

Pratipadā presentSunrise, the instant the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 08:46 on Sat 27 Mar to 09:48 on Sun 28 Mar.

    2032-03-27T00:46:20Z → 2032-03-28T01:47:34Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 05:29 on the 27th and 05:27 on the 28th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is not on the 27th and is on the 28th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 11813 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Daqing, 2032: Sunday 28 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Vasantotsava 2032 falls on Sunday 28 March. Pratipadā runs from 08:46 on Sat 27 Mar to 09:48 on Sun 28 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2032/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 28 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 28 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 28 Mar
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/vasantotsava · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Phālguna, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Pratipadā
Kāla
Sunrise
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“K 1 Vasantotsava (current at sunrise, if occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the first day).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePratipadāSunrise 27thCoveredSunrise 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:46 → 18:4806:46holds06:45no27 Mar
Chicago19:46 → 20:4806:41holds06:39no27 Mar
Jersey City20:46 → 21:4806:47holds06:46no27 Mar
Port of Spain20:46 → 21:4806:06holds06:05no27 Mar
London00:46 → 02:4805:47holds06:44no27 Mar
Durban02:46 → 03:4806:04holds06:05no27 Mar
Dubai04:46 → 05:4806:15holds06:14no27 Mar
Delhi06:16 → 07:1806:17holds06:16holds27 Mar
Kolkata06:16 → 07:1805:34no05:33holds28 Mar
Singapore08:46 → 09:4807:07no07:06holds28 Mar
Sydney11:46 → 12:4807:04no07:05holds28 Mar
Suva12:46 → 13:4806:12no06:12holds28 Mar
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vasantotsava@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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