Hello @GISManager4,
Please check out the Dates and Times sample available in Survey123 Connect, the same shows how to perform calculations on dates and times in Survey123.
The calculation that would work for your use case would be (decimal-time(${end_time}) - decimal-time(${start_time})) *24 *60 (calculates minutes elapsed) or (decimal-time(${end_time}) - decimal-time(${start_time})) *24 (calculates hours elapsed).