@sinbad definitely possible. Windows installs its own boot loader regardless of whether you're on EUFI or BIOS, hence why with a dual boot you have to install Windows before anything else, otherwise it just replaces the loader your other O/S installs with a loader that doesn't let you boot to anything else. So it makes sense that it'd be able to change that software at any point.
60 seconds though, doesn't sound like it'd be a malicious thing. Could be sanity checking something? Or clock skew?