Ruling · Rādhāṣṭamī · 2088

Thursday 23 September

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 197 minutes.

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46°35′ N 125°00′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 2037860

The two middays

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

Midday of Wednesday 22 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:08  11:56 madhyāhna ends
10:2010:4411:0811:3211:5612:2012:44

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 23 September

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:08  11:56 madhyāhna ends
10:2010:4411:0811:3211:5612:2012:44

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 15:13 on Wed 22 Sep to 17:40 on Thu 23 Sep.

    2088-09-22T07:13:04Z → 2088-09-23T09:39:50Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:08–11:56 on the 22nd, 11:08–11:56 on the 23rd.

    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 22nd and 48 of 48 on the 23rd.

    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 11800 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Rādhāṣṭamī, Daqing, 2088: Thursday 23 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Rādhāṣṭamī 2088 falls on Thursday 23 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 15:13 on Wed 22 Sep to 17:40 on Thu 23 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2088/radhashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 23 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 23 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 23 Sep
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/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 22ndCoveredMadhyāhna 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:13 → 02:4012:2148 min12:210 min22 Sep
Chicago02:13 → 04:4012:1948 min12:180 min22 Sep
Jersey City03:13 → 05:4012:2548 min12:240 min22 Sep
Port of Spain03:13 → 05:4011:3548 min11:340 min22 Sep
London08:13 → 10:4012:2948 min12:280 min22 Sep
Durban09:13 → 11:4011:2548 min11:2415 min22 Sep
Dubai11:13 → 13:4011:4748 min11:4748 min22 Sep
Delhi12:43 → 15:1011:500 min11:4948 min23 Sep
Kolkata12:43 → 15:1011:050 min11:0548 min23 Sep
Singapore15:13 → 17:4012:330 min12:3348 min23 Sep
Sydney17:13 → 19:4011:240 min11:2448 min23 Sep
Suva19:13 → 21:4011:350 min11:3548 min23 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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