Live updates to tzdata on a running server

[articice]

We have a server in NodeJS that runs 24/7, and restarts to load fresh tzdata are not desired.

• Is it possible to supplement tzdata with a module that queries system tz database (Linux) and its data (updated via distribution package manager)?
• Is there a hack to NodeJS to reload tzdata into your module after doing npm install tzdata (using cron)?

[rogierschouten]

Hi, good ideas. I think we could use a separate module in the tzdata-xxx family to read the Linux system tzdata. Any chance you could start that?

Off the top of my head: loading data into a running instance is done using tc.TzDatabase.init(customTimeZoneData);; however it may be that it prevents you from calling it twice. Let me know and I'll look into it

[rogierschouten]

@articice I checked and you can indeed call tc.TzDatabase.init(customTimeZoneData) more than once, so there you have your update possibility