Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī (Goṣṭhāṣṭamī) · 2013

Sunday 10 November

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 482 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Sunday 10 November

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:00  11:48 madhyāhna ends
10:1210:3611:0011:2411:4812:1212:36

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 11 November

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:00  11:48 madhyāhna ends
10:1210:3611:0011:2411:4812:1212:36

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 02:57 on Sun 10 Nov to 01:03 on Mon 11 Nov.

    2013-11-09T18:57:13Z → 2013-11-10T17:02:33Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:00–11:48 on the 10th, 11:00–11:48 on the 11th.

    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 10th and 0 of 48 on the 11th.

    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 28945 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Daqing, 2013: Sunday 10 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Gopāṣṭamī 2013 falls on Sunday 10 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 02:57 on Sun 10 Nov to 01:03 on Mon 11 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2013/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 10 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 10 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 10 Nov
No institution has a recorded ruling for Daqing.

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 9thCoveredMadhyāhna 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:57 → 09:0311:1348 min11:130 min9 Nov
Chicago12:57 → 11:0311:100 min11:100 min10 Nov
Jersey City13:57 → 12:0311:160 min11:1646 min10 Nov
Port of Spain14:57 → 13:0311:260 min11:2648 min10 Nov
London18:57 → 17:0311:200 min11:2048 min10 Nov
Durban20:57 → 19:0311:160 min11:1648 min10 Nov
Dubai22:57 → 21:0311:380 min11:3948 min10 Nov
Delhi00:27 → 22:3311:410 min11:4148 min10 Nov
Kolkata00:27 → 22:3310:560 min10:5648 min10 Nov
Singapore02:57 → 01:0312:240 min12:2548 min10 Nov
Sydney05:57 → 04:0312:150 min12:1548 min10 Nov
Suva07:57 → 06:0312:260 min12:2648 min10 Nov
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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