Sony gives the all-clear over PS3 clock bug

[wraggster]

Sony has apologised for the bug that crippled a significant number of PlayStation 3 units yesterday, including retail SKUs, test and development kits.

According to the company, a bug related to the internal clock has now corrected itself as the date has changed, and users are now able to play on their consoles after previous warnings not to switch machines on.

"We are aware that the internal clock functionality in the PS3 units other than the slim model, recognised the year 2010 as a leap year. Having the internal clock date change from February 29 to March 1 (both GMT), we have verified that the symptoms are now resolved and that users are able to use their PS3 normally," said the company in a statement.

If users are still seeing incorrect times on the cross media bar, they should adjust the settings manually, said Sony.

"We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused."

The twenty four hour problem came just as the format holder released one of its most critically acclaimed titles to date, Heavy Rain, which also shot to number one in the UK all-formats charts.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...-ps3-clock-bug

[phsychokill]

so basically Sony is going to do nothing and hope the system doesn't screw up again?

slightly worrying how a firm of this size managed to program their hardware so it doesn't even know when a leap year is, does this mean since it thought this year was the leap year it will miss the leap year in 2012? or break again in 2014?

[Insomniac-Evolution]

so basically Sony is going to do nothing and hope the system doesn't screw up again?

slightly worrying how a firm of this size managed to program their hardware so it doesn't even know when a leap year is, does this mean since it thought this year was the leap year it will miss the leap year in 2012? or break again in 2014?

lol Obviously could be resolved by an update? anyway it corrected just after 12 I set the time and date via connection, and before you couldn't and got an error, so doing that and working, confirmed signing in should work...

[phsychokill]

yep it's fixed for now but it will happen again in 2014 as the PS3 hardware thinks a leap year is every 2 years instead of every 4.