The town hall has an ordinary analogue clock: the hour hand turns once every 12 hours, the
minute hand once every hour, and both move smoothly. At 00:00 (midnight) they point the same way.
A photographer watches the clock from start to end, both given as 24-hour "HH:MM" strings.
Both ends are included. If end is earlier than start, the watch runs past midnight into the
next day; if they are equal, it lasts a single instant.
Write hands_meet(start, end) that returns a tuple (count, first): how many times during the
watch the two hands point in exactly the same direction, and the first such moment as an
"HH:MM:SS" string with the seconds rounded down. If they never meet, first is "".
Examples
Input: start = "12:00", end = "13:05"
Output: (1, "12:00:00")
Explanation: the next meeting after 12:00 is at about 13:05:27, too late.
Input: start = "13:05", end = "13:06"
Output: (1, "13:05:27")
Input: start = "23:30", end = "00:30"
Output: (1, "00:00:00")
Input: start = "00:00", end = "23:59"
Output: (22, "00:00:00")
Constraints
startandendare valid times from"00:00"to"23:59".
Goals
- Turn a meeting condition into an equation with whole numbers
- Count solutions in an interval without floats
- Format a time with zero padding and handle a midnight wrap