Hi Raymond,
I can understand your point we need to store it in db or session or cookies to display in different areas.
I think we are good with current requested time because crons are wordpress based so sometimes it might be off when no one is access website.
If we still want to display first of all we can make crons server based which will run all time even website is not being accessed.
I hope you get my point or you can discuss on skype again.
 