Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1975

Sunday 28 September

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 347 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Saturday 27 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:05 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:41
17:4118:0518:2918:5319:1719:4120:05

0 of 97 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 28 September

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

18:03 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:40
17:3918:0318:2718:5119:1519:3920:03

97 of 97 minutes covered

Aṣṭamī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 01:53 on Sun 28 Sep to 01:27 on Mon 29 Sep.

    1975-09-27T23:52:48Z → 1975-09-28T23:27:11Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:05–19:41 on the 27th, 18:03–19:40 on the 28th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 97 minutes on the 27th and 97 of 97 on the 28th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 20830 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 1975: Sunday 28 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1975 falls on Sunday 28 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 01:53 on Sun 28 Sep to 01:27 on Mon 29 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1975/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 28 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 28 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 28 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/jitashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“K 8 Mahalaksmi vrata samapana (current at moonrise), Jitastami (pradosa), Jimutavahana puja” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīSunset 27thCoveredSunset 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:53 → 16:2718:4396 min18:420 min27 Sep
Chicago18:53 → 18:2718:4084 min18:380 min27 Sep
Jersey City19:53 → 19:2718:4629 min18:4443 min28 Sep
Port of Spain19:53 → 19:2717:590 min17:5889 min28 Sep
London00:53 → 00:2718:490 min18:4697 min28 Sep
Durban01:53 → 01:2717:540 min17:5594 min28 Sep
Dubai03:53 → 03:2718:100 min18:0996 min28 Sep
Delhi05:23 → 04:5718:130 min18:1196 min28 Sep
Kolkata05:23 → 04:5717:290 min17:2896 min28 Sep
Singapore07:23 → 06:5718:290 min18:2895 min28 Sep
Sydney09:53 → 09:2717:540 min17:5594 min28 Sep
Suva11:53 → 11:2718:030 min18:0394 min28 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
jitashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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