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On 20 Jan 2003 23:43:05 +0000, Mertens Bram wrote:

> /etc/localtime is a symling to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels 
> but that file is empty!:
> [M8ram@localhost M8ram]$ ls -lh /etc/localtime
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           35 Sep  4 08:18 /etc/localtime
> -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels
> [M8ram@localhost M8ram]$ ls -lh /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels 
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jan 14 15:40
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels

Notice its date. That's when you killed the file, ;)
or a program you were using.

> [M8ram@localhost M8ram]$ cat /etc/localtime
> [M8ram@localhost M8ram]$ cat /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels 
> [M8ram@localhost M8ram]$ 
> 
> I guess that's not the way it is supposed to be?
> Brussels is the only file in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe that has 0 as
> file size!
> 
> Apparently trying to cat one of those files is bad idea! My xterm got
> completely messed up!
> 
> Any suggestions on getting my timezone file restored?

Over-install the complete glibc-common package (with --force) or
extract the single file from it (with rpm2cpio or mc).

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