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trooper077

PS3 Y2K?

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It's already been solved if I've heard correctly. Anyone I know who had the problem no longer has it.

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A good friend of mine had this issue, and therefore wasn't able to play through heavy rain after having just bought it. This caused me many a laugh.

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I don't own a PS3.
But I'll be optimistic and say "hope any and all PS3 issues resolve and peace be amongst us!"

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heh I noticed last night mine had reset its clock to 12/31/1999

I thought that was odd...

AIEE!! I just checked it and now it's 4/29/2020

Oh lordy...

EDIT: Hmm updated the time via the internet and shutdown and restarted and it seems to be fine.

This was the only odd thing ever to happen to it. Besides a very rare random crash or two.

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I didn't encounter the time setting bug, though I did read about it on several sites. In fact, I typed and posted this message from my PS3.

It's not something I do on a normal basis. I'm just waiting for The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC for Borderlands to finish downloading.

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Fuck them, I'm only using Famiclones and chinese "Vii" Wii clones.

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Aliotroph? said:

Did they say what causes it? Looks like a neat bug.


I think it had something to do with the internal clock switching from Feb 28th to March 1st. Or maybe not, but I know that the internal clock is used to keep track of rentals, so something may have happened where it threw a flag and thought the clock was being tampered with and refused access to PSN.

Or maybe not. Either way, it's fixed now.


EDIT: Yeah, Sony explained that the error was caused by an internal clock bug that recognized 2010 as a leap year. Ouch.

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I basically only use my PS3 for listening to music and watching YouTube anymore so I haven't had any issues.

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It was actually a hardware bug, which is why the newer PS3 Slim systems were not affected. Some microcontroller they used reported yesterday as 2010-02-29 which the OS didn't appreciate very much. I believe the same faulty chip has been used in a couple of cellphones and caused similar issues in the past.

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