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Problem 2483. How long until the weekend?

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Write a function a that takes a date vector as an input and returns the number of hours until the weekend begins. The beginning of the weekend is defined as 5:00 PM on Friday. For example

input=[ 2014 08 04 08 00 00]
weekend(input) = 105

input=[ 2014 08 08 16 30 00]
weekend(input) = 0.5

str2num and other cheat functions are not allowed.

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45.86% Correct | 54.14% Incorrect
Last Solution submitted on Mar 26, 2025

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