As stated changing how the duration is done is a major thing and I will look into it in the future when there is an open beta . It is only an html option box not database settings.
You can try something like this to set it to a default value if someone tries using that thing. This is the simplest thing. Create an array of acceptible values and then if its not in the array set it to a default.
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