Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī (Goṣṭhāṣṭamī) · 2047

Saturday 26 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 155 minutes.

Decide it for

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 25 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 26 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 15:36 on Fri 25 Oct to 15:00 on Sat 26 Oct.

    2047-10-25T07:35:36Z → 2047-10-26T07:00:27Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 25th, 11:38–12:26 on the 26th.

    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 25th and 48 of 48 on the 26th.

    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 9271 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Baoding, 2047: Saturday 26 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gopāṣṭamī 2047 falls on Saturday 26 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 15:36 on Fri 25 Oct to 15:00 on Sat 26 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2047/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 26 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 26 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 26 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 25thCoveredMadhyāhna 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:36 → 00:0012:1348 min12:130 min25 Oct
Chicago02:36 → 02:0012:1048 min12:100 min25 Oct
Jersey City03:36 → 03:0012:1648 min12:160 min25 Oct
Port of Spain03:36 → 03:0011:2648 min11:260 min25 Oct
London08:36 → 08:0012:2048 min12:200 min25 Oct
Durban09:36 → 09:0011:1648 min11:160 min25 Oct
Dubai11:36 → 11:0011:3948 min11:390 min25 Oct
Delhi13:06 → 12:3011:410 min11:4148 min26 Oct
Kolkata13:06 → 12:3010:570 min10:5648 min26 Oct
Singapore15:36 → 15:0012:250 min12:2548 min26 Oct
Sydney18:36 → 18:0012:160 min12:1548 min26 Oct
Suva19:36 → 19:0011:270 min11:2648 min26 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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