[kh99]

There are 6 "minute" fields because you can schedule a task to run up to 6 times per hour at certain minutes of the hour. If you choose '*' then it will run once per minute, but that's the most often you can schedule a task to run (unless you modify the code somehow).

I'm assuming that you're using the returned value somewhere, maybe you could do something like before it's displayed check to see if it's more than 5 seconds old, and if it is, request it before displaying it. But then I guess you'd also need a way to keep it from constantly being requested by multiple threads, especially if you have a very busy site,