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Ruling · 2005 · Sapporo

Vasantotsava

Sunday 27 March2005 · Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Determinatemargin 30 min

In Sapporo, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 30 minutes.

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The two sunrises सूर्योदय

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes

The sunrise is read as upper limb, 31′ + 16′.

Sunrise of Saturday 26 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

05:28 sunrise
Pratipadā begins 05:58:31
04:1604:4005:0405:2805:5206:1606:40

Absent at sunrise

Sunrise of Sunday 27 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

05:27 sunrise
Pratipadā ends 06:06:35
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 निर्णय

  1. Step 1, Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 05:59 on Sat 26 Mar to 06:07 on Sun 27 Mar.

    2005-03-25T20:58:32Z → 2005-03-26T21:06:35Z
  2. Step 2, Kāla

    Sunrise is at 05:28 on the 26th and 05:27 on the 27th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
  3. Step 3, Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is not on the 26th and is on the 27th.

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

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 1814 s
  5. Step 5, Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Sapporo, 2005: Sunday 27 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Sapporo, Vasantotsava 2005 falls on Sunday 27 March. Pratipadā runs from 05:59 on Sat 26 Mar to 06:07 on Sun 27 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/sapporo/festivals/2005/vasantotsavapac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

never edited to agree

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 27 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 27 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 27 Mar
No institution has a recorded ruling for Sapporo.

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 clocks

PlacePratipadāSunrise 25thCoveredSunrise 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:59 → 13:0705:50no05:48holds26 Mar
Chicago14:59 → 15:0705:45no05:44holds26 Mar
Jersey City15:59 → 16:0705:51no05:50holds26 Mar
Port of Spain16:59 → 17:0706:07no06:07holds26 Mar
London20:59 → 21:0705:52no05:50holds26 Mar
Durban22:59 → 23:0706:03no06:03holds26 Mar
Dubai00:59 → 01:0706:18no06:17holds26 Mar
Delhi02:29 → 02:3706:20no06:19holds26 Mar
Kolkata02:29 → 02:3705:36no05:35holds26 Mar
Singapore04:59 → 05:0707:07no07:07holds26 Mar
Sydney07:59 → 07:0707:02no07:03no27 Mar
Suva08:59 → 09:0706:11no06:12no27 Mar
This ruling as JSON · ICS
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vasantotsava@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s