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paulzolo

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Re: PS3 issues

Mine was a 60GB model (it]s a 320GB model now coz I added a bigger HD). This morning, it thought it was 1st March. I told it to update the time on the internet, and now it seems to be telling the time properly.

At least this wasn’t fatal. My Newton 2000 can’t tell the time past January this year because of a wonky “millennium bug” type problem with the time.

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Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:59 am

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Re: PS3 issues

Just FYI for those with an interest:


	Quote: Old-style PlayStation 3 consoles are now able to reconnect to the PlayStation Network, after a glitch in the machine's internal clock blocked access to the online service. Sony last night confirmed early claims that the clock was to blame. The bug caused the console to treat 2010 as a leap year and so change the date at midnight GMT Sunday to 29 February rather than 1 March. The new, slimline PS3s were not affected. Clearly, the PSN log-on process involves some degree of time synchronisation, and all those consoles around the world sending in the wrong date were told they would not be allowed to connect. Once the consoles' clocks changed to 1 March, they were allowed to connect to PSN once more. Users can set the date to the correct one, if they haven't already, in the PS3's settings. Sony apologised for any inconvenience the glitch may have caused, but has yet to say whether a firmware patch that will fix the problem is on the way.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/03/02 ... _bypassed/

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Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:27 pm

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Re: PS3 issues

pcernie wrote:

Just FYI for those with an interest:


	Quote: Clearly, the PSN log-on process involves some degree of time synchronisation, and all those consoles around the world sending in the wrong date were told they would not be allowed to connect.

I really don't get why journalists are finding it so hard to get the issue right, it happened even if you weren't logged on.

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Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:06 pm

pcernie

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Re: PS3 issues

It's not much of a story really, but ARM chips are getting the blame (thread in the news section).

Made me wonder, my mate's sat-nav went funny the other day and now works again

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Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:37 pm

Geiseric

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Re: PS3 issues

Turned on adjusted the date, all ok........

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