Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī (Goṣṭhāṣṭamī) · 1967

Thursday 9 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 510 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 8 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 9 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 20:55 on Wed 8 Nov to 21:16 on Thu 9 Nov.

    1967-11-08T12:55:15Z → 1967-11-09T13:15:50Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 8th, 11:38–12:26 on the 9th.

    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 8th and 48 of 48 on the 9th.

    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 30576 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1967: Thursday 9 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gopāṣṭamī 1967 falls on Thursday 9 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 20:55 on Wed 8 Nov to 21:16 on Thu 9 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1967/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 9 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 9 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 9 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 8thCoveredMadhyāhna 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:55 → 05:1611:1348 min11:130 min8 Nov
Chicago06:55 → 07:1611:1048 min11:100 min8 Nov
Jersey City07:55 → 08:1611:1648 min11:160 min8 Nov
Port of Spain08:55 → 09:1611:2648 min11:260 min8 Nov
London12:55 → 13:1611:200 min11:2048 min9 Nov
Durban14:55 → 15:1611:160 min11:1648 min9 Nov
Dubai16:55 → 17:1611:380 min11:3848 min9 Nov
Delhi18:25 → 18:4611:410 min11:4148 min9 Nov
Kolkata18:25 → 18:4610:560 min10:5648 min9 Nov
Singapore20:25 → 20:4611:540 min11:5448 min9 Nov
Sydney22:55 → 23:1611:150 min11:1548 min9 Nov
Suva00:55 → 01:1611:260 min11:2648 min9 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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