Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2059

Sunday 30 March

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 382 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 29 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

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

Absent at sunrise

Sunrise of Sunday 30 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

05:25 sunrise
04:1304:3705:0105:2505:4906:1306:37

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 11:48 on Sat 29 Mar to 13:33 on Sun 30 Mar.

    2059-03-29T03:48:11Z → 2059-03-30T05:32:59Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 05:27 on the 29th and 05:25 on the 30th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is not on the 29th and is on the 30th.

    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 22891 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Daqing, 2059: Sunday 30 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Vasantotsava 2059 falls on Sunday 30 March. Pratipadā runs from 11:48 on Sat 29 Mar to 13:33 on Sun 30 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2059/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 30 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 30 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 30 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 29thCoveredSunrise 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:48 → 22:3306:44holds06:43no29 Mar
Chicago22:48 → 00:3306:39holds06:37no29 Mar
Jersey City23:48 → 01:3306:45holds06:43no29 Mar
Port of Spain23:48 → 01:3306:05holds06:05no29 Mar
London03:48 → 06:3305:43holds06:41no29 Mar
Durban05:48 → 07:3306:05holds06:06holds29 Mar
Dubai07:48 → 09:3306:14no06:13holds30 Mar
Delhi09:18 → 11:0306:15no06:14holds30 Mar
Kolkata09:18 → 11:0305:33no05:32holds30 Mar
Singapore11:48 → 13:3307:06no07:06holds30 Mar
Sydney14:48 → 16:3307:05no07:06holds30 Mar
Suva15:48 → 17:3306:12no06:12holds30 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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