"""Clock-time parsing and the error metric, in MINUTES. An analog clock face is a ring of 720 minutes (12 hours). Two times that look identical on a face are identical here: 3:15 and 15:15 are the same reading. Error is the shorter way round that ring, so it lives in [0, 360]. Nothing in this file knows about models, images or torch. It is the definition of "correct" for the whole project, so it is kept small and tested. """ from __future__ import annotations import re RING = 720.0 # minutes on a 12-hour face MAX_ERR = RING / 2 # 360: the two hands are as far apart as they can get _TIME_RE = re.compile(r"^\s*(\d{1,2})\s*[:.h]\s*(\d{1,2}(?:\.\d+)?)\s*$") def to_minutes(hour: float, minute: float) -> float: """Position on the face, in minutes past 12 o'clock, in [0, 720).""" return ((hour % 12) * 60.0 + minute) % RING def from_minutes(minutes: float) -> tuple[int, float]: """Inverse of to_minutes. Returns (hour 1-12, minute).""" m = minutes % RING hour = int(m // 60) return (12 if hour == 0 else hour), m - hour * 60 def fmt(minutes: float) -> str: """Human clock string, e.g. 227.0 -> '3:47'. Fractions kept if present.""" h, m = from_minutes(minutes) if abs(m - round(m)) < 1e-9: return f"{h}:{int(round(m)):02d}" return f"{h}:{m:05.2f}" def parse(text: str) -> float: """Parse a human-typed time into minutes-on-the-face. Accepts '3:47', '03:47', '3.47', '15:47' (same face position as 3:47) and bare digits '347' / '1215' as typed by the labelling UI. """ text = (text or "").strip() if not text: raise ValueError("empty time") m = _TIME_RE.match(text) if not m: if text.isdigit() and 3 <= len(text) <= 4: m = re.match(r"^(\d{1,2})(\d{2})$", text) if not m: raise ValueError(f"cannot parse time: {text!r}") hour = float(m.group(1)) minute = float(m.group(2)) if not (0 <= hour <= 23): raise ValueError(f"hour out of range: {text!r}") if not (0 <= minute < 60): raise ValueError(f"minute out of range: {text!r}") return to_minutes(hour, minute) def error_minutes(pred: float, label: float) -> float: """Shorter arc between two face positions, in minutes. In [0, 360].""" d = abs((pred - label) % RING) return min(d, RING - d) def swapped(minutes: float) -> float: """The reading you get if the hour and minute hands are confused. The minute hand sits at (minutes % 60) minutes-of-the-hour, i.e. face position (minutes % 60) * 12. The hour hand sits at face position `minutes`, which reads as minute-of-hour (minutes / 12). Swapping the two gives this. Used only as a diagnostic on failures. """ minute_hand_pos = (minutes % 60) * 12.0 # where the minute hand is new_hour = minute_hand_pos // 60 # read it as the hour hand new_minute = (minutes % RING) / 12.0 # read hour hand as minutes return to_minutes(new_hour, new_minute)