PS3 users heave a sigh of relief. It ‘was a simple mistake in calculating the date, a kind of Millennium Bug “pissed” 10 years after what caused yesterday – Monday, March 1, 2010 – the failure of the PS3 to “old generation”, those not so Slim so to speak.
A known issue with Sony explains how the internal clock of the old PS3 this year erroneously recognized as a leap year. It was enough to overload the machine at the stroke of the fateful (and nonexistent) 29 February 2010.
The consequence of this problem for users was the inability to connect Playstation to the Playstation Network and even the failure of those games offline and download the list of trophies. Users were shown a terse and unreadable “error 8001050F.
It was enough indeed – Sony says its pages-manually set the system date (from XMB or internet) connect to March 1 in order to fit everything in the canons of normality. For those who have not done the problem is resolved spontaneously today, when the internal clock has provided automatically rollover. In this case, however, remains a small modification to do to be truly a place … ie move from 1 to 2 of March, because nell’incappare this error has been unwittingly PS3 back one day …
The problem has fortunately brought consequences. No loss of data or save it to be permanent.
At this point there is to be hoped that the incident does not comes up again next year (or if Sony is to establish in advance a “Hotfix “)… Sara leap year but maybe not for the PS3 units involved in this “incident” …