I'm looking into the sensitivity of energy use and execution time to various parameters (timestep, surface convection, geometry level of detail, etc.). For this I need to save the execution time of each run.

As it stands I'm parsing the string in the eplusout.end file:

Elapsed Time=00hr 01min  1.00sec

But is there a better way? I've had a look in the SQLite file but can't see anything.