As of now it appears there is no set schedule. For the past few days I have seen them being updated at (I think) somewhere around 5 or 6 AM Central US time (UTC -5). Yesterday it happened sometime during the day and right now it happened at about 3:15 AM. All I can say is that they are usually updated once per day. The place to check for updates is
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/tables.xml
right now it says
1089447245
This is a UNIX time stamp indicating the exact time of the last update. Once I get my stats website (See my profile URL) up and running to where it can update itself without manual intervention, I plan on making a script that will check the above xml file every few hours and automatically initiate an update whenever berkeley updates their files. I know... I need to work on my site's graphic design :)
Have you been watching the XML files the last couple of days? Did you notice the large drop in the number of users/teams? Seems to be fixed today but it sure had me spooked there for a while.