Ruling · Śrī Pañcamī · 2090

Saturday 4 February

Boundaryin Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 1 min 12 s away. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Saturday 4 February

Taken. Both middays qualify; the rule takes the first.

madhyāhna begins 11:30  12:18 madhyāhna ends
10:4211:0611:3011:5412:1812:4213:06

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 5 February

Qualifies with 1 of 48 minutes. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:30  12:18 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī ends 11:31:38
10:4211:0611:3011:5412:1812:4213:06

1 of 48 minutes covered, the first 1

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 09:11 on Sat 4 Feb to 11:32 on Sun 5 Feb.

    2090-02-04T01:11:26Z → 2090-02-05T03:31:38Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:30–12:18 on the 4th, 11:30–12:18 on the 5th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 4th and 1 of 48 on the 5th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Both middays qualify. Pūrvaviddhā: the first is taken.

    priority: purvaviddha → purvaviddha · margin 72 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śrī Pañcamī, Daqing, 2090: Saturday 4 February.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Daqing, Śrī Pañcamī 2090 falls on Saturday 4 February. Pañcamī runs from 09:11 on Sat 4 Feb to 11:32 on Sun 5 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday. It also reaches the next midday for 1 minutes; by the rule the first midday is taken. It is 1 min 12 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2090/shri-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 4 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 4 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 4 Feb
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/shri-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
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 clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 4thCoveredMadhyāhna 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:11 → 19:3211:4348 min11:430 min4 Feb
Chicago19:11 → 21:3211:4148 min11:410 min4 Feb
Jersey City20:11 → 22:3211:4748 min11:470 min4 Feb
Port of Spain21:11 → 23:3211:5648 min11:560 min4 Feb
London01:11 → 03:3211:5148 min11:510 min4 Feb
Durban03:11 → 05:3211:4648 min11:460 min4 Feb
Dubai05:11 → 07:3212:0948 min12:090 min4 Feb
Delhi06:41 → 09:0212:1148 min12:110 min4 Feb
Kolkata06:41 → 09:0211:2748 min11:270 min4 Feb
Singapore09:11 → 11:3212:5548 min12:550 min4 Feb
Sydney12:11 → 14:3212:4548 min12:4548 min4 Feb
Suva13:11 → 15:3211:560 min11:5648 min5 Feb
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shri-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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