PSN goes all Millennium Bug on us

CliffyBiro · 2 Mar 2010 at 09:23

Jonny_no2 said:
Mine told me it was 29/04/2010 and I lost 2 trophies which I had earned since my previous sync, although I got both back when I loaded up the game they were from

So not too bad at all!

Yep, I got trophies that I had previously already been awarded with.

My date was correct though.

CliffyBiro · 2 Mar 2010 at 09:35

cheets64 said:
So everything is fine and Sony are forgiven?

Not going to hang, draw and quarter them for losing one day of gaming.

Disjunto · 2 Mar 2010 at 09:37

skippi90 said:
Not going to hang, draw and quarter them for losing one day of gaming.

yeah, I lost at most, 3 hours of time I would have spent playing PS3 games, instead I played some PC games. If it hasn't resolved itself, there would actually be an issue

antijoke · 2 Mar 2010 at 09:38

cheets64 said:
So everything is fine and Sony are forgiven?

Why wouldn't it be fine?

No damage has been done to the system itself, it was a programming error.

billbennett · 2 Mar 2010 at 09:51

I believe sony are going to compensate everybody by awarding everyone 5 gold trophies.

antijoke · 2 Mar 2010 at 09:53

What for? Surviving RL for 24 hours without a PS3?

Disjunto · 2 Mar 2010 at 09:53

billbennett said:
I believe sony are going to compensate everybody by awarding everyone 5 gold trophies.

or maybe a free T-Shirt for home with "I Survived Feb 29th 2010" written on it

Daveyboy · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:02

KNiVES said:
Hey that's cool dude, slight conundrum though, we can't quite connect to the internet. That's the whole point of this bug.

Oh yeah,

Stretch · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:06

Can't belive they made such a school boy error. This is day one comp sci stuff.

Disjunto · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:08

Stretch said:
Can't belive they made such a school boy error. This is day one comp sci stuff.

do you know what the actual problem was? Or are you speculating on the cause due to the outcome?

We know what happened, but I'm yet to read WHY it happened, if they've released this information, I would love to read it

jamie2497 · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:12

So i'm guessing Sony have 4 years to fix this? Since for the next 3 years even if the internal clock reads a different date, it'll still be a date that is recognised by the OS until 2014. Unless its just a one off and someone set 2010 alone to be a leap year.

billbennett · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:12

human error full stop.

billbennett · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:15

The fix is simple, let the O.S know that the hardware will think and get the date wrong on 29th feb or whatever every year or 4 years, whatever, and to accept it but put show the date right by a software code.

beachBOYken · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:18

hi

just woke up and had my weetabix ,have sony fixed the problem and released some update?

thanks

billbennett · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:18

Or they could contact the world leaders to have a no phat ps3 date due to global warming and have it fall on this date. Would probably make more money on sales of slim ps3 then as well.

Sareth · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:22

beachBOYken said:
hi

just woke up and had my weetabix ,have sony fixed the problem and released some update?

thanks

The fix was waiting till today.

Disjunto · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:22

beachBOYken said:
hi

just woke up and had my weetabix ,have sony fixed the problem and released some update?

thanks

Sony did nothing, it resolved itself when the consoles started looking for a real date (ie. not 29th Feb 2010)

beachBOYken · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:23

is it a case of turning the ps3 on and everything should be back to normal?

do i need to update the date?

Disjunto · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:24

beachBOYken said:
is it a case of turning the ps3 on and everything should be back to normal?

do i need to update the date?

you might need to sync the time with the internet, but yeah, should be fine

TwoSaints · 2 Mar 2010 at 10:24

You may find that the date and time are wrong when you start up, but its just a case of correcting them, other than that you should be fine.