Ruling · Buddha Pūrṇimā · 2004

Tuesday 4 May

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 597 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 Monday 3 May

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:49  13:37 madhyāhna ends
12:0112:2512:4913:1313:3714:0114:25

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 4 May

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:49  13:37 madhyāhna ends
12:0112:2512:4913:1313:3714:0114:25

48 of 48 minutes covered

Pūrṇimā presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 02:41 on Tue 4 May to 23:33 on Tue 4 May.

    2004-05-03T23:41:10Z → 2004-05-04T20:33:27Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:49–13:37 on the 3rd, 12:49–13:37 on the 4th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 3rd and 48 of 48 on the 4th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 35804 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Buddha Pūrṇimā, Bucharest, 2004: Tuesday 4 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Buddha Pūrṇimā 2004 falls on Tuesday 4 May. Pūrṇimā runs from 02:41 on Tue 4 May to 23:33 on Tue 4 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2004/buddha-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 4 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 4 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 4 May
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/buddha-purnima · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Sampat gauri vrata (paraviddha), Phuladola (Bengal & Orissa) (paraviddha), Gandhesvari puja (Bengal) (purvaviddha), Buddha purnima, Vaisakhi purnima.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāMadhyāhna 3rdCoveredMadhyāhna 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:41 → 13:3312:260 min12:2648 min4 May
Chicago18:41 → 15:3312:240 min12:2448 min4 May
Jersey City19:41 → 16:3312:290 min12:2948 min4 May
Port of Spain19:41 → 16:3311:390 min11:3948 min4 May
London00:41 → 21:3312:340 min12:3448 min4 May
Durban01:41 → 22:3311:290 min11:2848 min4 May
Dubai03:41 → 00:3311:520 min11:5248 min4 May
Delhi05:11 → 02:0311:540 min11:5448 min4 May
Kolkata05:11 → 02:0311:100 min11:0948 min4 May
Singapore07:41 → 04:3312:370 min12:3748 min4 May
Sydney09:41 → 06:3311:280 min11:2848 min4 May
Suva11:41 → 08:3311:390 min11:3946 min4 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
buddha-purnima@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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