Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī (Goṣṭhāṣṭamī) · 1996

Monday 18 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 462 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 17 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 Monday 18 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 22:11 on Sun 17 Nov to 20:09 on Mon 18 Nov.

    1996-11-17T14:10:51Z → 1996-11-18T12:09:12Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:39–12:27 on the 17th, 11:39–12:27 on the 18th.

    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 17th and 48 of 48 on the 18th.

    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 27723 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1996: Monday 18 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gopāṣṭamī 1996 falls on Monday 18 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 22:11 on Sun 17 Nov to 20:09 on Mon 18 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1996/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 18 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 18 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 18 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 17thCoveredMadhyāhna 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles06:11 → 04:0911:1448 min11:140 min17 Nov
Chicago08:11 → 06:0911:1148 min11:120 min17 Nov
Jersey City09:11 → 07:0911:1748 min11:170 min17 Nov
Port of Spain10:11 → 08:0911:2748 min11:270 min17 Nov
London14:11 → 12:0911:210 min11:2148 min18 Nov
Durban16:11 → 14:0911:170 min11:1748 min18 Nov
Dubai18:11 → 16:0911:400 min11:4048 min18 Nov
Delhi19:41 → 17:3911:420 min11:4248 min18 Nov
Kolkata19:41 → 17:3910:570 min10:5848 min18 Nov
Singapore22:11 → 20:0912:260 min12:2648 min18 Nov
Sydney01:11 → 23:0912:160 min12:1748 min18 Nov
Suva02:11 → 00:0911:270 min11:2848 min18 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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