Saturday 30 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 12:19 on Fri 29 Oct to 12:02 on Sat 30 Oct.

   1976-10-29T10:18:55Z → 1976-10-30T10:02:27Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:35–12:23 on the 29th, 11:35–12:23 on the 30th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 4 of 48 minutes on the 29th and 27 of 48 on the 30th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

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 247 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Gopāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 1976: Saturday 30 October.

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

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Gopāṣṭamī 1976 falls on Saturday 30 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 12:19 on Fri 29 Oct to 12:02 on Sat 30 Oct and covers 27 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday. It also reaches the previous midday for 4 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 4 min 07 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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