Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī (Goṣṭhāṣṭamī) · 1954

Thursday 4 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 257 minutes.

Decide it for

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 Wednesday 3 November

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 4 November

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

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 16:43 on Wed 3 Nov to 16:54 on Thu 4 Nov.

    1954-11-03T08:42:52Z → 1954-11-04T08:54:22Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 3rd, 11:38–12:26 on the 4th.

    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 3rd and 48 of 48 on the 4th.

    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 15440 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1954: Thursday 4 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gopāṣṭamī 1954 falls on Thursday 4 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 16:43 on Wed 3 Nov to 16:54 on Thu 4 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1954/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 4 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 4 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 4 Nov
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 3rdCoveredMadhyāhna 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:43 → 00:5411:1248 min11:120 min3 Nov
Chicago02:43 → 02:5411:1048 min11:100 min3 Nov
Jersey City03:43 → 03:5411:1648 min11:160 min3 Nov
Port of Spain04:43 → 04:5411:2648 min11:260 min3 Nov
London08:43 → 08:5411:2048 min11:200 min3 Nov
Durban10:43 → 10:5411:1648 min11:160 min3 Nov
Dubai12:43 → 12:5411:380 min11:3848 min4 Nov
Delhi14:13 → 14:2411:410 min11:4148 min4 Nov
Kolkata14:13 → 14:2410:560 min10:5648 min4 Nov
Singapore16:13 → 16:2411:540 min11:5448 min4 Nov
Sydney18:43 → 18:5411:150 min11:1548 min4 Nov
Suva20:43 → 20:5411:260 min11:2648 min4 Nov
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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