Can you manually tell named to update the zone files in Bond 9?

[Lists User]

In the Bind 9 documentation it says:
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BIND 9 currently does not update the zone file when it exits as BIND 8
does, so editing the zone file manually is unsafe even when the server has
been shut down. 
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Is there a way to tell named to update the zone file?  When are the
journal files updated?  Can you change the time that the zone files are
updated?

Thanks for any answers...
-Steve