Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī · 2055

Wednesday 27 October

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 550 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 26 October

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:35  13:23 madhyāhna ends
11:4712:1112:3512:5913:2313:4714:11

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 27 October

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:35  13:23 madhyāhna ends
11:4712:1112:3512:5913:2313:4714:11

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 22:33 on Tue 26 Oct to 23:25 on Wed 27 Oct.

    2055-10-26T19:33:15Z → 2055-10-27T20:25:27Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:35–13:23 on the 26th, 12:35–13:23 on the 27th.

    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 26th and 48 of 48 on the 27th.

    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: unstated → only-day · margin 32997 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 2055: Wednesday 27 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Gopāṣṭamī 2055 falls on Wednesday 27 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 22:33 on Tue 26 Oct to 23:25 on Wed 27 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2055/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 27 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 27 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 27 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/gopashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 8 Gopastami, Gosthastami.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīMadhyāhna 26thCoveredMadhyāhna 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:33 → 13:2512:1327 min12:1348 min27 Oct
Chicago14:33 → 15:2512:100 min12:1048 min27 Oct
Jersey City15:33 → 16:2512:160 min12:1648 min27 Oct
Port of Spain15:33 → 16:2511:260 min11:2648 min27 Oct
London20:33 → 21:2512:200 min12:2048 min27 Oct
Durban21:33 → 22:2511:160 min11:1648 min27 Oct
Dubai23:33 → 00:2511:390 min11:3948 min27 Oct
Delhi01:03 → 01:5511:410 min11:4148 min27 Oct
Kolkata01:03 → 01:5510:560 min10:5648 min27 Oct
Singapore03:33 → 04:2512:250 min12:2548 min27 Oct
Sydney06:33 → 07:2512:160 min12:1548 min27 Oct
Suva07:33 → 08:2511:270 min11:2648 min27 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
gopashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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