- Born
- 7 May 1861, 2:38 AM
- Clock
- Local mean time of Calcutta (UTC+5:53:26)
- Place
- Tagore family house (Jorasanko Thakur Bari), Jorasanko, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (Kolkata, India)
- Coordinates
- 22.5850, 88.3592
- Birth time
- from the person's own or the family's account
- How the time stands
- The hour is the Tagore family's own: Tagore copied his horoscope's notation into the first manuscript of Jibansmriti, and a horoscope notebook compiled by his nephew Balendranath gives the English-clock time 2-38-37, both quoted by Prasanta Kumar Pal. It is A, not AA, because the horoscope cast at the birth was lost and replaced in 1879, the clock line is in a second, unnamed hand, and we read both documents only as Pal quotes them.
- About the clock
- India had no standard time in 1861 and Calcutta kept its own mean solar time, so the offset is the house's longitude times 4 minutes; zoneinfo's Asia/Kolkata gives Howrah Mean Time (UTC+5:53:20) for 1861, the same local clock to within 6 seconds.
Other times printed elsewhere
- 02:28:37 · A later, reset printing of Pal's Rabijibani vol. 1 (scan at the Internet Archive, item 20230316_20230316_1606) prints 2 h 28 min 37 s in the running text; the same page still quotes the notebook as 2-38-37 and the older printing reads 2 h 38 min, so this is a misprint.
- 02:27:41 (Indian Standard Time (UTC+5:30)) · AstroSage, entered at UTC+5:30 and citing 'Finance and Profession' by Raj Kumar (an astrology book, not seen); as Indian Standard Time it equals 02:51:07 Calcutta local mean time, and no original record is named.
- 04:02 · Astrotheme (local time, ascendant 20 degrees 12 minutes Aries), marked conflicting/unverified with a DD rating and crediting Lois Rodden; the same time appears in a Scribd chart analysis. No original source is given.
