Dealing with times (hours, minutes)

I am trying to find a way to format a column to contain time, in hours and minutes, not time of day. So far I can only find formatting for date and time of day. I would like to be able to sum the time values. The times represent duration of my bike rides and I would like to sum these values. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Hello
Looking at this thread may help:
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1138610&tstart=30>
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 21 septembre 2007 20:25:42)

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