Ruling · Vaiśākhī (Baisakhi) · 2039

Thursday 14 April

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 537 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day is sunrise to the next sunrise.

Day of Thursday 14 April

Taken. The transit falls in this day.

04:56 sunrisenext sunrise 04:54
Sun enters Meṣa 19:57:37
04:3208:3212:3216:3220:3200:3204:32

Falls in this day

Day of Friday 15 April

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

04:54 sunrisenext sunrise 04:53
04:3008:3012:3016:3020:3000:3004:30

Does not fall in this day

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    The Sun enters Meṣa at 19:58 on Thu 14 Apr.

    2039-04-14T11:57:38Z · nirayana, lahiri-iae1985

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise: from 04:56 on the 14th, and from 04:54 on the 15th.

    day: sunrise-to-sunrise · sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    The festival is kept on the day of the transit, the day counted from sunrise. The transit falls on the 14th, not the 15th.

    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 sunrise → only-day · margin 32206 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vaiśākhī, Daqing, 2039: Thursday 14 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Vaiśākhī (Baisakhi) 2039 falls on Thursday 14 April. The Sun enters Meṣa at 19:58 on Thu 14 Apr, and the rule counts the day from sunrise. By the Tamil rule for the first day of a solar month, which gives a transit after sunset to the next day, it is 15 April.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2039/vaishakhi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 14 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 14 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 14 Apr
Counted from midnightCRC 1955, p. 106Thu 14 Apr
Past sunset, the next day (the Tamil rule)CRC 1955, p. 244Fri 15 Apr
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/vaishakhi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Sign entered
Meṣa
Zodiac
Nirayana
Ayanāṃśa
lahiri-iae1985
Day counted from
Sunrise
Tie-break
None: an instant
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 106

“Mesadi — Cadaka puja (Bengal), Bahag Bihu (Assam), Cheiraoba (Manipur), Visu (T. C. State), Vaisakhi (on the samkramana day commencing from sunrise).” 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 other names in the row (Cadaka puja, Bahag Bihu, Cheiraoba, Visu) are regional observances and wait with the regional rows.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSun enters MeṣaSunrise 14thCoveredSunrise 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:5806:24no06:22no13 Apr
Chicago06:5806:12falls06:11no14 Apr
Jersey City07:5806:20falls06:18no14 Apr
Port of Spain07:5805:56falls05:56no14 Apr
London12:5806:08falls06:06no14 Apr
Durban13:5806:14falls06:15no14 Apr
Dubai15:5805:58falls05:57no14 Apr
Delhi17:2805:57falls05:56no14 Apr
Kolkata17:2805:18falls05:17no14 Apr
Singapore19:5807:01falls07:01no14 Apr
Sydney21:5806:17falls06:18no14 Apr
Suva23:5806:16falls06:16no14 Apr
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vaishakhi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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