@Aaron Boranian I read your comment https://unmethours.com/question/30206/how-to-start-simulation-at-custom-hour/#50592 and understood/agree that we "can't start an EnergyPlus simulation at a custom hour, it will always start at the beginning of the first day in the run period."
However, I was wondering if you could do me a favor and let me know with any potential solution to "define start time in my Energyplus model". In particular, I already wrote a (MATLAB) code to run my idf through it. In this code, I have a for-loop and I need to run my idf file starting from h to h+24 (h=1:24). In other words, I need to have results generated per hour, which entitles defining start time in the idf file.
I truly appreciate all your continued support.