Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī · 1944

Wednesday 25 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 343 minutes.

Decide it for

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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 Tuesday 24 October

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:38  13:26 madhyāhna ends
11:5012:1412:3813:0213:2613:5014:14

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 25 October

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:38  13:26 madhyāhna ends
11:5012:1412:3813:0213:2613:5014:14

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 20:18 on Tue 24 Oct to 19:09 on Wed 25 Oct.

    1944-10-24T11:18:11Z → 1944-10-25T10:08:47Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:38–13:26 on the 24th, 12:38–13:26 on the 25th.

    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 24th and 48 of 48 on the 25th.

    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: unstated → only-day · margin 20563 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1944: Wednesday 25 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gopāṣṭamī 1944 falls on Wednesday 25 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 20:18 on Tue 24 Oct to 19:09 on Wed 25 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1944/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 25 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 25 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 25 Oct
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/gopashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 8 Gopastami, Gosthastami.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīMadhyāhna 24thCoveredMadhyāhna 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:18 → 03:0912:1348 min12:130 min24 Oct
Chicago06:18 → 05:0912:1148 min12:100 min24 Oct
Jersey City07:18 → 06:0912:1648 min12:160 min24 Oct
Port of Spain08:18 → 07:0912:2648 min12:260 min24 Oct
London12:18 → 11:0912:2048 min12:200 min24 Oct
Durban13:18 → 12:0911:160 min11:1648 min25 Oct
Dubai15:18 → 14:0911:390 min11:3948 min25 Oct
Delhi17:48 → 16:3912:410 min12:4148 min25 Oct
Kolkata17:48 → 16:3911:570 min11:5748 min25 Oct
Singapore20:18 → 19:0913:250 min13:2548 min25 Oct
Sydney21:18 → 20:0911:160 min11:1648 min25 Oct
Suva23:18 → 22:0911:270 min11:2748 min25 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
gopashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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