Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī (Goṣṭhāṣṭamī) · 1955

Wednesday 23 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 23 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 Tuesday 22 November

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:40  12:28 madhyāhna ends
Aṣṭamī begins 12:50:33
10:5211:1611:4012:0412:2812:5213:16

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 23 November

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:40  12:28 madhyāhna ends
10:5211:1611:4012:0412:2812:5213:16

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 12:51 on Tue 22 Nov to 13:56 on Wed 23 Nov.

    1955-11-22T04:50:34Z → 1955-11-23T05:55:48Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:40–12:28 on the 22nd, 11:40–12:28 on the 23rd.

    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 22nd and 48 of 48 on the 23rd.

    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 1359 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1955: Wednesday 23 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gopāṣṭamī 1955 falls on Wednesday 23 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 12:51 on Tue 22 Nov to 13:56 on Wed 23 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1955/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 23 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 23 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 23 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 22ndCoveredMadhyāhna 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:51 → 21:5611:1548 min11:150 min22 Nov
Chicago22:51 → 23:5611:1248 min11:130 min22 Nov
Jersey City23:51 → 00:5611:1848 min11:180 min22 Nov
Port of Spain00:51 → 01:5611:2848 min11:280 min22 Nov
London04:51 → 05:5611:2248 min11:230 min22 Nov
Durban06:51 → 07:5611:1848 min11:180 min22 Nov
Dubai08:51 → 09:5611:4148 min11:410 min22 Nov
Delhi10:21 → 11:2611:4348 min11:430 min22 Nov
Kolkata10:21 → 11:2610:5848 min10:5927 min22 Nov
Singapore12:21 → 13:2611:5724 min11:5748 min23 Nov
Sydney14:51 → 15:5611:170 min11:1848 min23 Nov
Suva16:51 → 17:5611:280 min11:2948 min23 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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