# Logging time in minutes and seconds

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/logging-time-in-minutes-and-seconds/163593>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 22, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/logging-time-in-minutes-and-seconds/163593 "2009-03-22T20:33:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![MartOn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@MartOn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MartOn)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/logging-time-in-minutes-and-seconds/163593/1 "2009-03-22T20:33:26Z")

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Hello

Anybody know a nice plug-in or function/helper to store time as  
double, but from user interface, show it as X min Y seconds and also  
in the input form, be able to write 12:03 to write 12 minutes and 3  
seconds.

/MartOn