DO NOT TURN ON YOUR FAT PS3 - date bug is majorly screwing up systems

[The Fury]

drpunk said:

The Fury said:

drpunk said:

So are there no implications of the affected PS3's thinking that it's the 1st of March when it's the 2nd (i.e. always a day behind the real date)? Which is what was presumably going to happen and appears to be what has happened.

My PS3 this morning after a day of not being on thought it was the 1st of March, or at least it said 01/03 (UK format) on the date bit at the top.

Yeah, seemed the obvious thing that was gonna happen, that if it thought yesterday was 29th of Feb then it would think that today is 1st March.

So it's obviously not "fixed" and I'm just wondering what possible implications there are of it always being a day behind. Hopefully there are none.

Or I can just set the date 1 day forward, the issue was the system's confusion and the 2 days not matching and one not existing, now the days exist so the system just thinks it's yesterday instead of today. I presume me setting the date to today won't do anything but change the date that displays on main screen and as the 29th has now passed as far as the internal clock is concerned, it cannot be go back to it and so no error will be found (I cannot set the calendar date as 29th as it doesn't exist).

Surely there would be the same issue if I manually set the date to 13th April 2013, the dates differ but the internal clock will always be behind. It doesn't harm the console at all, it's just a date.

 

.... this is confusing.