Working With Rails

Hi!

I created a table like this:
[code=]create_table :work_items do |t| t.date :execution_date t.string :section t.integer :member_id t.time :duration t.text :description

t.timestamps
end[/code]
I need the duration field to enter something like HH:MM. Just the time without a date.

When I enter it, everything seems fine… But when I return to the edit view I see the time formatted like 2000-01-01 10:23:00…

When I create a validate method in the model to check on the input, I allways get 2000-01-01 10:23:00, weird because I only entered 10:23…

This is the validate method in the model:
def validate puts duration # Results in 2000-01-01 10:23:00
end

Can anyone help me? I hoped time would work like date, with this column I don’t have any problems…

Or is there another way for me to enter a time in the database? I want to input the format HH:MM and later on I would like to calculate the total time from several records…

Thhnx!