Ruling · Mahāṣṭamī (Durga Ashtami) · 1999

Sunday 17 October

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 341 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 Sunday 17 October

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:37  13:25 madhyāhna ends
11:4912:1312:3713:0113:2513:4914:13

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 18 October

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:36  13:24 madhyāhna ends
11:4812:1212:3613:0013:2413:4814:12

0 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 04:56 on Sun 17 Oct to 06:56 on Mon 18 Oct.

    1999-10-17T01:55:38Z → 1999-10-18T03:55:49Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:37–13:25 on the 17th, 12:36–13:24 on the 18th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 17th and 0 of 48 on the 18th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 20440 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Mahāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 1999: Sunday 17 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Mahāṣṭamī (Durga Ashtami) 1999 falls on Sunday 17 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 04:56 on Sun 17 Oct to 06:56 on Mon 18 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1999/mahashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 17 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 17 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 17 Oct
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/mahashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 8 Mahastami (paraviddha)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīMadhyāhna 17thCoveredMadhyāhna 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:56 → 20:5612:1448 min12:140 min17 Oct
Chicago20:56 → 22:5612:1248 min12:110 min17 Oct
Jersey City21:56 → 23:5612:1748 min12:170 min17 Oct
Port of Spain21:56 → 23:5611:2748 min11:270 min17 Oct
London02:56 → 04:5612:2248 min12:210 min17 Oct
Durban03:56 → 05:5611:1848 min11:170 min17 Oct
Dubai05:56 → 07:5611:4048 min11:400 min17 Oct
Delhi07:26 → 09:2611:4248 min11:420 min17 Oct
Kolkata07:26 → 09:2610:5848 min10:580 min17 Oct
Singapore09:56 → 11:5612:2648 min12:260 min17 Oct
Sydney11:56 → 13:5611:179 min11:1748 min18 Oct
Suva13:56 → 15:5611:280 min11:2848 min18 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
mahashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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