Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī (Goṣṭhāṣṭamī) · 1995

Tuesday 31 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 238 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Monday 30 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

Midday of Tuesday 31 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

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 18:16 on Mon 30 Oct to 16:23 on Tue 31 Oct.

    1995-10-30T10:15:59Z → 1995-10-31T08:23:09Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 30th, 11:38–12:26 on the 31st.

    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 30th and 48 of 48 on the 31st.

    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 14255 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1995: Tuesday 31 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gopāṣṭamī 1995 falls on Tuesday 31 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:16 on Mon 30 Oct to 16:23 on Tue 31 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1995/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 31 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 31 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 31 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 30thCoveredMadhyāhna 31stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:16 → 00:2311:1248 min11:120 min30 Oct
Chicago04:16 → 02:2311:1048 min11:100 min30 Oct
Jersey City05:16 → 03:2311:1648 min11:160 min30 Oct
Port of Spain06:16 → 04:2311:2648 min11:260 min30 Oct
London10:16 → 08:2311:2048 min11:200 min30 Oct
Durban12:16 → 10:2311:160 min11:160 min31 Oct
Dubai14:16 → 12:2311:380 min11:3845 min31 Oct
Delhi15:46 → 13:5311:410 min11:4148 min31 Oct
Kolkata15:46 → 13:5310:560 min10:5648 min31 Oct
Singapore18:16 → 16:2312:240 min12:2448 min31 Oct
Sydney21:16 → 19:2312:150 min12:1548 min31 Oct
Suva22:16 → 20:2311:260 min11:2648 min31 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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