Ruling · Rādhāṣṭamī · 1969

Friday 19 September

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 167 minutes.

Decide it for

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44°26′ N 26°06′ E · Europe/Bucharest · GeoNames 683506

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Thursday 18 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:45  12:33 madhyāhna ends
10:5711:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:21

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 19 September

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:45  12:33 madhyāhna ends
10:5711:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:21

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 17:25 on Thu 18 Sep to 15:20 on Fri 19 Sep.

    1969-09-18T15:25:12Z → 1969-09-19T13:19:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:45–12:33 on the 18th, 11:45–12:33 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. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 10000 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Rādhāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 1969: Friday 19 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Rādhāṣṭamī 1969 falls on Friday 19 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:25 on Thu 18 Sep to 15:20 on Fri 19 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1969/radhashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 19 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 19 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 19 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Bucharest.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/radhashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 8 Durvastami (purvaviddha — S 8 of saura Bhadra except Bengal), Mahalaksmi vratarambha, Radhastami (madhyahna vyapini)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīMadhyāhna 18thCoveredMadhyāhna 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:25 → 06:2012:2348 min12:220 min18 Sep
Chicago10:25 → 08:2012:2048 min12:200 min18 Sep
Jersey City11:25 → 09:2012:2648 min12:260 min18 Sep
Port of Spain11:25 → 09:2011:3648 min11:360 min18 Sep
London16:25 → 14:2012:300 min12:3048 min19 Sep
Durban17:25 → 15:2011:260 min11:2648 min19 Sep
Dubai19:25 → 17:2011:490 min11:4848 min19 Sep
Delhi20:55 → 18:5011:510 min11:5148 min19 Sep
Kolkata20:55 → 18:5011:070 min11:0648 min19 Sep
Singapore22:55 → 20:5012:050 min12:0548 min19 Sep
Sydney01:25 → 23:2011:260 min11:2548 min19 Sep
Suva03:25 → 01:2011:370 min11:3648 min19 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
radhashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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