Overlapping Time Slots

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A calendar for a single day holds two meetings, first and second. Each is a pair of strings [start, end] in 24-hour HH:MM format, and both ends belong to the meeting. The meetings clash if at least one moment belongs to both of them, including the case where one ends exactly when the other begins. Return True if the meetings clash and False otherwise.

Example 1

first=['09:30', '10:15'], second=['10:15', '11:00'] → True

The first meeting ends at 10:15 and the second starts at 10:15. They share that moment, so they clash.

Example 2

first=['13:00', '18:00'], second=['14:20', '14:40'] → True

The second meeting lies entirely inside the first.

Example 3

first=['16:45', '17:00'], second=['08:00', '16:44'] → False

The second meeting ends a minute before the first one starts, so there is no common moment.

Constraints

len(first) == len(second) == 2
Every time is written as HH:MM, 00:00 ≤ time ≤ 23:59
A meeting does not start after it ends

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Input

first=['09:30', '10:15'], second=['10:15', '11:00']

Expected

True

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