Return to Answer

added 461 characters in body

edited Apr 1, 2020 at 6:38

user92069

Are these the same time? code-golf time decision-problem

Context

When asked about the time (i.e. hours and minutes), people naturally reply with any one of a given set of fairly common sentences:

(A) it is M past H
(B) it is M to H
(C) it is H minus M

Where M above refers to some amount of minutes and H to some amount of hours. Concrete corresponding examples, all referring to the time 3:40 pm:

(A) it is forty40 past three3
(B) it is twenty20 to four4
(C) it is four4 minus twenty20

Task

Given two of these sentences, output a Truthy value if they represent the same time and a Falsy value if they do not.

Input

Your input will be two sentences of the above, where references to minutes will always be rounded to the nearest multiple of 5 (i.e. the minutes will always be one of five5, ten10, fifteen15, twenty20, ..., fifty50, fifty-five55.

Because all sentences start with "it is " you may ommit that from your input sentences.

Output

A Truthy value if the two times are the same, a Falsy value otherwise.

Test cases

TBASHere is a sample program for checking the test cases.

Sandbox

Should the minutes and hours in the input com as integers instead of English words?

Are these the same time? code-golf time decision-problem

Context

When asked about the time (i.e. hours and minutes), people naturally reply with any one of a given set of fairly common sentences:

(A) it is M past H
(B) it is M to H
(C) it is H minus M

Where M above refers to some amount of minutes and H to some amount of hours. Concrete corresponding examples, all referring to the time 3:40 pm:

(A) it is forty past three
(B) it is twenty to four
(C) it is four minus twenty

Task

Given two of these sentences, output a Truthy value if they represent the same time and a Falsy value if they do not.

Input

Your input will be two sentences of the above, where references to minutes will always be rounded to the nearest multiple of 5 (i.e. the minutes will always be one of five, ten, fifteen, twenty, ..., fifty, fifty-five.

Because all sentences start with "it is " you may ommit that from your input sentences.

Output

A Truthy value if the two times are the same, a Falsy value otherwise.

Test cases

TBAS

Sandbox

Should the minutes and hours in the input com as integers instead of English words?

Are these the same time? code-golf time decision-problem

Context

When asked about the time (i.e. hours and minutes), people naturally reply with any one of a given set of fairly common sentences:

(A) it is M past H
(B) it is M to H
(C) it is H minus M

Where M above refers to some amount of minutes and H to some amount of hours. Concrete corresponding examples, all referring to the time 3:40 pm:

(A) it is 40 past 3
(B) it is 20 to 4
(C) it is 4 minus 20

Task

Given two of these sentences, output a Truthy value if they represent the same time and a Falsy value if they do not.

Input

Your input will be two sentences of the above, where references to minutes will always be rounded to the nearest multiple of 5 (i.e. the minutes will always be one of 5, 10, 15, 20, ..., 50, 55.

Because all sentences start with "it is " you may ommit that from your input sentences.

Output

A Truthy value if the two times are the same, a Falsy value otherwise.

Test cases

Here is a sample program for checking the test cases.

Sandbox

Should the minutes and hours in the input com as integers instead of English words?

Source Link

answered Mar 31, 2020 at 23:56

RGS

14.2k
11
21

Are these the same time? code-golf time decision-problem

Context

When asked about the time (i.e. hours and minutes), people naturally reply with any one of a given set of fairly common sentences:

(A) it is M past H
(B) it is M to H
(C) it is H minus M

Where M above refers to some amount of minutes and H to some amount of hours. Concrete corresponding examples, all referring to the time 3:40 pm:

(A) it is forty past three
(B) it is twenty to four
(C) it is four minus twenty

Task

Given two of these sentences, output a Truthy value if they represent the same time and a Falsy value if they do not.

Input

Because all sentences start with "it is " you may ommit that from your input sentences.

Output

A Truthy value if the two times are the same, a Falsy value otherwise.

Test cases

TBAS

Sandbox

Should the minutes and hours in the input com as integers instead of English words?