Timespan question

If i have a timespan variable name dtspan and I convert the variable to total minuets with dtspan.totalminutes and write that total minutes value to a Database table.

When I retrieve the total minutes from the DB later can I place it into a timespan variable to be able to the convert the total minutes into a day, hour, minute format. Keep in mind that the minutes are stored as integers in the DB table.

Thanks,

Ty