Ruling · Rādhāṣṭamī · 1976

Wednesday 1 September

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 245 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 Tuesday 31 August

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 1 September

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

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 18:32 on Tue 31 Aug to 16:44 on Wed 1 Sep.

    1976-08-31T16:31:59Z → 1976-09-01T14:44:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 31st, 11:51–12:39 on the 1st.

    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 31st and 48 of 48 on the 1st.

    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 14694 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Rādhāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 1976: Wednesday 1 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Rādhāṣṭamī 1976 falls on Wednesday 1 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:32 on Tue 31 Aug to 16:44 on Wed 1 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1976/radhashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 1 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 1 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 1 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 31stCoveredMadhyāhna 1stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:32 → 07:4412:2948 min12:290 min31 Aug
Chicago11:32 → 09:4412:2648 min12:260 min31 Aug
Jersey City12:32 → 10:4412:3248 min12:320 min31 Aug
Port of Spain12:32 → 10:4411:420 min11:420 min1 Sep
London17:32 → 15:4412:360 min12:3648 min1 Sep
Durban18:32 → 16:4411:320 min11:3248 min1 Sep
Dubai20:32 → 18:4411:550 min11:5548 min1 Sep
Delhi22:02 → 20:1411:570 min11:5748 min1 Sep
Kolkata22:02 → 20:1411:130 min11:1248 min1 Sep
Singapore00:02 → 22:1412:110 min12:1148 min1 Sep
Sydney02:32 → 00:4411:320 min11:3148 min1 Sep
Suva04:32 → 02:4411:430 min11:4248 min1 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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