Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī (Goṣṭhāṣṭamī) · 2034

Sunday 19 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 680 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 Saturday 18 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 Sunday 19 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 23:47 on Sat 18 Nov to 00:05 on Mon 20 Nov.

    2034-11-18T15:46:39Z → 2034-11-19T16:05:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:39–12:27 on the 18th, 11:39–12:27 on the 19th.

    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 18th and 48 of 48 on the 19th.

    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 40774 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Baoding, 2034: Sunday 19 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gopāṣṭamī 2034 falls on Sunday 19 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 23:47 on Sat 18 Nov to 00:05 on Mon 20 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2034/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 19 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 19 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 19 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 18thCoveredMadhyāhna 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:47 → 08:0511:1448 min11:140 min18 Nov
Chicago09:47 → 10:0511:1248 min11:120 min18 Nov
Jersey City10:47 → 11:0511:1748 min11:180 min18 Nov
Port of Spain11:47 → 12:0511:2729 min11:2738 min19 Nov
London15:47 → 16:0511:210 min11:2248 min19 Nov
Durban17:47 → 18:0511:170 min11:1748 min19 Nov
Dubai19:47 → 20:0511:400 min11:4048 min19 Nov
Delhi21:17 → 21:3511:420 min11:4248 min19 Nov
Kolkata21:17 → 21:3510:580 min10:5848 min19 Nov
Singapore23:47 → 00:0512:260 min12:2648 min19 Nov
Sydney02:47 → 03:0512:160 min12:1748 min19 Nov
Suva03:47 → 04:0511:270 min11:2848 min19 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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