ICal default settings

The default setting on my iCal is always a ‘whole day’ event. I know you can change that by typing in ‘Movie at 7:00 PM.' But I find this an unsatisfactory solution.
Sometime ago I found a Terminal command that sets the default for whatever minutes you want to set:
defaults write com.apple.iCal 'Default duration in minutes for new event' 60
but it doesn’t work. Could someone help me by improving the command?
Thanks,
Klaus

It DOES read 60.
However, it works now... I am ashamed to admit, but I didn’t do the basic first procedure to fix the problem: restart the computer. Though I quit iCal when doing the Terminal commands, there is probably some setting in the preference file that only gets read once at start-up.
Thank you for your help
Klaus

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