Wednesday 11 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 11:35 on Tue 10 Sep to 13:52 on Wed 11 Sep.

   1929-09-10T09:51:03Z → 1929-09-11T12:07:45Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:32–12:20 on the 10th, 11:32–12:20 on the 11th.

   madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 45 of 48 minutes on the 10th and 48 of 48 on the 11th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both middays qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 166 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Rādhāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 1929: Wednesday 11 September.

   confidence: boundary (margin, tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Rādhāṣṭamī 1929 falls on Wednesday 11 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 11:35 on Tue 10 Sep to 13:52 on Wed 11 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday. It also reaches the previous midday for 45 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 2 min 46 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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