Ruling · Mahāṣṭamī (Durga Ashtami) · 1941

Sunday 28 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 167 minutes.

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38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two middays

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

Midday of Saturday 27 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:45  13:33 madhyāhna ends
11:5712:2112:4513:0913:3313:5714:21

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 28 September

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:45  13:33 madhyāhna ends
11:5712:2112:4513:0913:3313:5714:21

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 18:05 on Sat 27 Sep to 16:19 on Sun 28 Sep.

    1941-09-27T09:05:07Z → 1941-09-28T07:19:20Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:45–13:33 on the 27th, 12:45–13:33 on the 28th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 27th and 48 of 48 on the 28th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 9998 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Mahāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1941: Sunday 28 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Mahāṣṭamī (Durga Ashtami) 1941 falls on Sunday 28 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:05 on Sat 27 Sep to 16:19 on Sun 28 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1941/mahashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 28 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 28 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 28 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/mahashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 8 Mahastami (paraviddha)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīMadhyāhna 27thCoveredMadhyāhna 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:05 → 23:1911:2048 min11:190 min27 Sep
Chicago04:05 → 01:1912:1748 min11:170 min27 Sep
Jersey City05:05 → 02:1912:2348 min11:230 min27 Sep
Port of Spain05:05 → 03:1911:3348 min11:330 min27 Sep
London10:05 → 08:1912:2748 min12:270 min27 Sep
Durban11:05 → 09:1911:2348 min11:230 min27 Sep
Dubai13:05 → 11:1911:460 min11:450 min28 Sep
Delhi14:35 → 12:4911:480 min11:4848 min28 Sep
Kolkata14:35 → 12:4911:040 min11:0348 min28 Sep
Singapore16:35 → 14:4912:020 min12:0148 min28 Sep
Sydney19:05 → 17:1911:230 min11:2248 min28 Sep
Suva21:05 → 19:1911:340 min11:3348 min28 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
mahashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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