Change pacman sync timeout

Guys, sorry if the answer is overly obvious, but I've spent a couple of days searching the forums, the wiki, google, and in the config files for how to change the sync timeout in pacman, but can't find what I'm looking for. Perhaps I'm using the wrong search terms, or looking in the wrong places, but not sure.
Anyway, when trying to sync the system with the package mirrors using pacman, there is currently a delay of what seems like 4 to 5 minutes for each mirror that is not available. I'm wanting to change that delay to something more like a minute or so if there's no problem in doing that.
Do any of you know where that timeout period can be changed?
Thank you.

don't know if changing the timeout is possible, but delays to skip a non-responding mirror of more then 10 seconds are bad.
- how many mirrors do you have enabled and did you check them against http://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/
normally having 3 or 4 mirrors (1 primary, rest for backup) enabled is more then enough
- what Xfer command are you using ?

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I've tried to find information regarding my problem but I've not found any, so maybe you would care to help me (I hope).
It's not a big deal for me really, but it is annoying. The problem is as follows:
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/R
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Note that you can do an -R operation (or anything not requiring sync databases) just fine. However, once we hit any machinery that requires sync databases to be present, we require all configured ones are accounted for. This is for a few reasons:
1) dependency resolving if you have 1 out-of-date database and 4 up-to-date ones, things can get ugly or messed up.
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