Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī (Goṣṭhāṣṭamī) · 1979

Sunday 28 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 105 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 Sunday 28 October

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

Midday of Monday 29 October

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

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 09:53 on Sun 28 Oct to 08:13 on Mon 29 Oct.

    1979-10-28T01:52:42Z → 1979-10-29T00:13:21Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 28th, 11:38–12:26 on the 29th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 28th and 0 of 48 on the 29th.

    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 6306 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1979: Sunday 28 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gopāṣṭamī 1979 falls on Sunday 28 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 09:53 on Sun 28 Oct to 08:13 on Mon 29 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1979/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 28 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 28 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 28 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 28thCoveredMadhyāhna 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:53 → 16:1311:1348 min11:130 min28 Oct
Chicago20:53 → 18:1311:1048 min11:100 min28 Oct
Jersey City21:53 → 19:1311:1648 min11:160 min28 Oct
Port of Spain21:53 → 20:1311:2648 min11:260 min28 Oct
London02:53 → 00:1311:2048 min11:200 min28 Oct
Durban03:53 → 02:1311:1648 min11:160 min28 Oct
Dubai05:53 → 04:1311:3848 min11:380 min28 Oct
Delhi07:23 → 05:4311:4148 min11:410 min28 Oct
Kolkata07:23 → 05:4310:5648 min10:560 min28 Oct
Singapore09:23 → 07:4311:5448 min11:540 min28 Oct
Sydney12:53 → 11:1312:1511 min12:150 min28 Oct
Suva13:53 → 12:1311:260 min11:2647 min29 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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