duration

Calculate the duration of a distributed job or individual task

Takes a distributed job or task and computes the duration from create time to finish time. If the job or task has not finished, it calculates to the current time. For example:

time = duration(job);
duration(job.Task(1))
515 seconds

Although this was tested with R2008a and the MathWorks Job Manager, it ought to work with past releases and other schedulers.