Time with only hour and minute

Rails
1

Hi

  I have to create in view a field as

Effort= Hour:Minute

If Hour is more than 24 Then a day is counted…How can I setup this in
view?And what field(Type) should be there in the database(Postgres) to
store it?

More details
A work is given to a person.Here he can say how much time he took to
complete it.

Sijo

2

As far as it’s not time, rather ‘amount of time’, integer field for
minutes should work.
Or decimal (one digit under the point) for hours - who really need
those minutes counted?
Text field in view will work best, but make sure to handle inputs like
“half hour”, “two hours and a bit” and “whole day”.