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Ruling · 1949 · Lüliang

Rādhāṣṭamī

Wednesday 31 August1949 · Lüliang, Shanxi, China

Determinatemargin 97 min

In Lüliang, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 97 minutes.

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The two middays मध्याह्न

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes

Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Tuesday 30 August

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:12  13:00 madhyāhna ends
11:2411:4812:1212:3613:0013:2413:48

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 31 August

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:12  13:00 madhyāhna ends
11:2411:4812:1212:3613:0013:2413:48

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided निर्णय

  1. Step 1, Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 16:04 on Tue 30 Aug to 14:37 on Wed 31 Aug.

    1949-08-30T08:03:33Z → 1949-08-31T06:36:40Z
  2. Step 2, Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:12–13:00 on the 30th, 12:12–13:00 on the 31st.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
  3. Step 3, Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 30th and 48 of 48 on the 31st.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103
  4. Step 4, Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 5828 s
  5. Step 5, Ruling

    Rādhāṣṭamī, Lüliang, 1949: Wednesday 31 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Lüliang, Rādhāṣṭamī 1949 falls on Wednesday 31 August. Aṣṭamī runs from 16:04 on Tue 30 Aug to 14:37 on Wed 31 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/lueliang/festivals/1949/radhashtamipac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

never edited to agree

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 31 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 31 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 31 Aug
No institution has a recorded ruling for Lüliang.

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 clocks

PlaceAṣṭamīMadhyāhna 30thCoveredMadhyāhna 31stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:04 → 22:3711:2948 min11:290 min30 Aug
Chicago03:04 → 01:3712:2748 min12:260 min30 Aug
Jersey City04:04 → 02:3712:3348 min12:320 min30 Aug
Port of Spain04:04 → 02:3711:4348 min11:420 min30 Aug
London09:04 → 07:3712:3748 min12:360 min30 Aug
Durban10:04 → 08:3711:3348 min11:320 min30 Aug
Dubai12:04 → 10:3711:5540 min11:550 min30 Aug
Delhi13:34 → 12:0711:580 min11:579 min31 Aug
Kolkata13:34 → 12:0711:130 min11:1348 min31 Aug
Singapore15:34 → 14:0712:110 min12:1148 min31 Aug
Sydney18:04 → 16:3711:320 min11:3248 min31 Aug
Suva20:04 → 18:3711:430 min11:4348 min31 Aug
This ruling as JSON · ICS
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
radhashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s