Emacs Org Mode: How To Stop Total in Column View Showing Number of Days?

Question

I\'m using Emacs 23.4.1 and Org-Mode 8.0.6

In my org file I have the estimated number of hours that a task will take using the Effort property of the associ

Answer 1

See the var org-time-clocksum-format:

;; format string used when creating CLOCKSUM lines and when generating a
;; time duration (avoid showing days)
(setq org-time-clocksum-format
      '(:hours "%d" :require-hours t :minutes ":%02d" :require-minutes t))

Answer 2

The accepted answer did not work for me. I was going to display CLOCKSUM in hours. This worked:

(setq org-duration-format 'h:mm)