calculate a sum of type time using sql

Question

How to caculate sum of times of my colonne called \"timeSpent\" having this format: HH:mm in SQL? I am using MySQL.

the type of my column is Time.

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Answer 1

SELECT  SEC_TO_TIME( SUM( TIME_TO_SEC( `timeSpent` ) ) ) AS timeSum  
FROM YourTableName  

This worked for me. Hope this helps.