Ruling · Gopāṣṭamī · 1939

Sunday 19 November

Determinatein Multan, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 165 minutes.

Decide it for

MultanDelhiKolkataSingaporeSydneyJersey City

30°12′ N 71°29′ E · Asia/Karachi · GeoNames 1169825

The two middays

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

Midday of Saturday 18 November

Aṣṭamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:05  12:53 madhyāhna ends
11:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:1713:41

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 19 November

Taken. The only midday Aṣṭamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:05  12:53 madhyāhna ends
11:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:1713:41

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 15:38 on Sat 18 Nov to 18:07 on Sun 19 Nov.

    1939-11-18T10:08:06Z → 1939-11-19T12:37:18Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:05–12:53 on the 18th, 12:05–12:53 on the 19th.

    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 18th and 48 of 48 on the 19th.

    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 9906 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gopāṣṭamī, Multan, 1939: Sunday 19 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Multan, Gopāṣṭamī 1939 falls on Sunday 19 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 15:38 on Sat 18 Nov to 18:07 on Sun 19 Nov and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/multan/festivals/1939/gopashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 19 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 19 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 19 Nov
No institution has a recorded ruling for Multan.

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 18thCoveredMadhyāhna 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:08 → 04:3711:1448 min11:140 min18 Nov
Chicago04:08 → 06:3711:1248 min11:120 min18 Nov
Jersey City05:08 → 07:3711:1748 min11:170 min18 Nov
Port of Spain06:08 → 08:3711:2748 min11:270 min18 Nov
London11:08 → 12:3712:2148 min11:2248 min18 Nov
Durban12:08 → 14:3711:170 min11:1748 min19 Nov
Dubai14:08 → 16:3711:400 min11:4048 min19 Nov
Delhi15:38 → 18:0711:420 min11:4248 min19 Nov
Kolkata15:38 → 18:0710:570 min10:5848 min19 Nov
Singapore17:28 → 19:5711:460 min11:4648 min19 Nov
Sydney20:08 → 22:3711:160 min11:1748 min19 Nov
Suva22:08 → 00:3711:270 min11:2848 min19 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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