Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī (Goṣṭhāṣṭamī) · 1988

Thursday 17 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 252 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 Wednesday 16 November

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 17 November

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

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 18:27 on Wed 16 Nov to 16:39 on Thu 17 Nov.

    1988-11-16T10:27:08Z → 1988-11-17T08:39:19Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:39–12:27 on the 16th, 11:39–12:27 on the 17th.

    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 16th and 48 of 48 on the 17th.

    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 15142 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1988: Thursday 17 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gopāṣṭamī 1988 falls on Thursday 17 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:27 on Wed 16 Nov to 16:39 on Thu 17 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1988/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 17 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 17 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 17 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 16thCoveredMadhyāhna 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:27 → 00:3911:1448 min11:140 min16 Nov
Chicago04:27 → 02:3911:1148 min11:110 min16 Nov
Jersey City05:27 → 03:3911:1748 min11:170 min16 Nov
Port of Spain06:27 → 04:3911:2748 min11:270 min16 Nov
London10:27 → 08:3911:2148 min11:210 min16 Nov
Durban12:27 → 10:3911:170 min11:170 min17 Nov
Dubai14:27 → 12:3911:390 min11:4048 min17 Nov
Delhi15:57 → 14:0911:420 min11:4248 min17 Nov
Kolkata15:57 → 14:0910:570 min10:5748 min17 Nov
Singapore18:27 → 16:3912:250 min12:2648 min17 Nov
Sydney21:27 → 19:3912:160 min12:1648 min17 Nov
Suva22:27 → 20:3911:270 min11:2748 min17 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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