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drpunk on 02 March 2010
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The Fury said:
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.

Damn right it's confusing.

But what stopped trophy games and DLC working? Presumably a link somewhere between system clock date and the time stamp on this stuff.

But the time stamp cannot be taken from the system clock or it shouldn't've had a problem (assuming that say it sees that DLC has date of 2010 but system clock thinks it's 1999/2000 in which case DLC cannot be valid. Dunno. Just guessing here, but is about the only possible cause that I can see).

So, if the time stamp isn't from the system clock, then say you set your PS3 up to the right date (2nd of march). You download some DLC but the system clock thinks it's 1st of March. So will this disable the DLC until the system clock hits 2nd of March?

Just thinking. Dunno.