fix: show one clock convention in English on the panel

The labels this application writes itself already read "6:30 pm", while
a translated notice kept whatever the French said, so the screen could
show "Closes at 6:30 pm" above "Delayed opening at 14:00". Two
conventions side by side on one panel.

The conversion is done in code, not by the prompt. The model is still
told to leave times alone — reading a clock and rewriting it is
deterministic work, and asking a language model to do it introduces a
failure mode for no benefit. Only HH:mm is touched, never a time that
already carries am or pm, so the pass is idempotent and years, dates
written 20/07 and percentages are left alone.

Hand-written translations are not rewritten: that wording was somebody's
explicit choice.

Verified against the live service: "Ouvert 10:00 – 13:00 puis 14:00 –
18:30" now comes back as "Open 10:00 am – 1:00 pm then 2:00 pm –
6:30 pm".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012cSY9pVhZmJUKNN7wf1Myd
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2026-09-20 22:37:59 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent ebc69dc109
commit ed89d08172
3 changed files with 78 additions and 3 deletions
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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
formatTimeEn,
shortDayLabelEn,
shortDayLabelFr,
toEnglishClock,
} from './format';
describe('formatDateFr / formatDateEn', () => {
@@ -126,3 +127,49 @@ describe('formatNextChange', () => {
expect(formatNextChangeEn(null, '2026-09-20')).toBe('');
});
});
describe('toEnglishClock', () => {
it('converts a single time', () => {
expect(toEnglishClock('Delayed opening at 14:00 today')).toBe(
'Delayed opening at 2:00 pm today',
);
});
it('converts every time in a range', () => {
expect(toEnglishClock('Open 10:00 – 13:00 · 14:00 – 18:30')).toBe(
'Open 10:00 am – 1:00 pm · 2:00 pm – 6:30 pm',
);
});
it('handles times written without a space around the dash', () => {
expect(toEnglishClock('10:00-18:30')).toBe('10:00 am-6:30 pm');
});
it('names noon and midnight', () => {
expect(toEnglishClock('Closing at 12:00')).toBe('Closing at 12:00 pm');
expect(toEnglishClock('Until 00:30')).toBe('Until 12:30 am');
});
it('leaves a time that already has am or pm alone', () => {
// Otherwise a second pass would mangle what the first one produced.
expect(toEnglishClock('Closes at 6:30 pm')).toBe('Closes at 6:30 pm');
expect(toEnglishClock('Closes at 6:30 PM')).toBe('Closes at 6:30 PM');
});
it('is stable when applied twice', () => {
const once = toEnglishClock('Open 10:00 – 18:30');
expect(toEnglishClock(once)).toBe(once);
});
it('leaves years, dates and prices alone', () => {
expect(toEnglishClock('Annual leave from July 20 to August 10')).toBe(
'Annual leave from July 20 to August 10',
);
expect(toEnglishClock('Collection 2026')).toBe('Collection 2026');
expect(toEnglishClock('Sale: 30% off')).toBe('Sale: 30% off');
});
it('leaves text with no time untouched', () => {
expect(toEnglishClock('New collection in store')).toBe('New collection in store');
});
});
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@@ -97,6 +97,26 @@ export function formatTimeEn(time: string): string {
return `${hour12}:${minute.toString().padStart(2, '0')} ${suffix}`;
}
/**
* Rewrites 24-hour times in English text to the 12-hour clock.
*
* The labels this application generates itself already read "6:30 pm", while a
* translated message keeps whatever the source said, because the prompt tells
* the model to leave times alone — which it should, since converting a clock
* is not a job for a language model. Doing it here instead keeps both
* conventions from appearing side by side on the same panel.
*
* Only `HH:mm` is touched, and never a time that already carries am/pm, so
* years and dates written 20/07 are left alone.
*/
export function toEnglishClock(text: string): string {
return text.replace(
/\b([01]?\d|2[0-3]):([0-5]\d)\b(?!\s*(?:am|pm|AM|PM))/g,
(match, hours: string, minutes: string) =>
formatTimeEn(`${hours.padStart(2, '0')}:${minutes}`) ?? match,
);
}
export function formatNextChangeFr(change: NextChange | null, today: CivilDate): string {
if (!change) {
return '';