Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī (Goṣṭhāṣṭamī) · 2044

Saturday 29 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 346 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 Friday 28 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 Saturday 29 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 18:12 on Fri 28 Oct to 20:40 on Sat 29 Oct.

    2044-10-28T10:12:04Z → 2044-10-29T12:39:36Z

  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 0 of 48 minutes on the 28th and 48 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 20783 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Baoding, 2044: Saturday 29 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gopāṣṭamī 2044 falls on Saturday 29 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:12 on Fri 28 Oct to 20:40 on Sat 29 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2044/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 29 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 29 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 29 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 Angeles03:12 → 05:4012:1348 min12:120 min28 Oct
Chicago05:12 → 07:4012:1048 min12:100 min28 Oct
Jersey City06:12 → 08:4012:1648 min12:160 min28 Oct
Port of Spain06:12 → 08:4011:2648 min11:260 min28 Oct
London11:12 → 13:4012:2048 min12:2048 min28 Oct
Durban12:12 → 14:4011:160 min11:1648 min29 Oct
Dubai14:12 → 16:4011:380 min11:3848 min29 Oct
Delhi15:42 → 18:1011:410 min11:4148 min29 Oct
Kolkata15:42 → 18:1010:560 min10:5648 min29 Oct
Singapore18:12 → 20:4012:240 min12:2448 min29 Oct
Sydney21:12 → 23:4012:150 min12:1548 min29 Oct
Suva22:12 → 00:4011:260 min11:2648 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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