Seems today there is a major problem for everyone who owns the phat version PS3.
It's impossible to connect to the PSNetwork,and you will see a very strange date/time.
This seems to be a hardware problem,and you are strongly advised not to change date/time settings,otherwise there will be some data corrupt.
Owners of the slim version don't seem to have any problems.
Keep U posted

Thanks for the info Eric

But I have the Slim PS3

Craig wrote:Thanks for the info Eric

But I have the Slim PS3

You lucky ^&^%^&
Seems the problem also occurs with the old 60G version.
My system time is set back to 1-1-2000 ??
In the meanwhile some people worldwide are connected again,but they seem to have lost their trophys.

Source http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/28/psn-is-down-some-titles-experiencing-game-crashing-errors/

I tried to connect last night just after midnight & couldn't get onto PSN at all, is this what was the matter then?





I'll turn it on later this afternoon, see what happens & get back to you!

Yes its happened for everyone, there are quite a few theories of whats going on ranging from Yearly Maintenence to 28 Febuary conspiricies of hackers. Apparently it happens every 28th Febuary.

GTF/GTD_JackTA4L wrote:Yes its happened for everyone, there are quite a few theories of whats going on ranging from Yearly Maintenence to 28 Febuary conspiricies of hackers. Apparently it happens every 28th Febuary.

Nothing happened to mine last February.

Just turned it on & like Kees said the date is screwed up, also cannot connect to PSN. I hope they get this sorted out by tonight, I was looking forward to some RX8 on Suzi action.





Official PSN Twitter Updates

Here's the lastest from PSN:


"As you may be aware, some customers have been unable to connect to the PlayStation Network today. This problem affects the models other than the new slim PS3.

We believe we have identified that this problem is being caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in the system.

Errors include:

The date of the PS3 system may be re-set to Jan 1, 2000.
When the user tries to sign-in to the PlayStation Network, the following message appears on the screen; “An error has occurred. You have been signed out of PlayStation Network (8001050F)”.
When the user tries to launch a game, the following error message appears on the screen and the trophy data may disappear; “Failed to install trophies. Please exit your game.”
When the user tries to set the time and date of the system via the Internet, the following message appears on the screen; “The current date and time could not be obtained. (8001050F)”
Users are not able to playback certain rental video downloaded from the PlayStation Store before the expiration date.
We hope to resolve this problem within the next 24 hours. In the meantime, if you have a model other than the new slim PS3, we advise that you do not use your PS3 system, as doing so may result in errors in some functionality, such as recording obtained trophies, and not being able to restore certain data.

As mentioned above, Please be advised that the new slim PS3 is not affected with this error. We are doing our best to resolve the issue and do apologise for any inconvenience caused."


Link To Article Here.

I was reading that its something to do with leap years and that the PS3 isnt working it out right!

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The going theory is that the PS3 is storing some form of date in GMT, then modifying that to get whatever you see in the on-screen clock. That modification process seems to be fine; the system can take 2/28/2010, 9PM GMT, add four hours, and get 3/1/2010, 1AM random time zone.
What’s apparently wrong, as speculation goes, is when the internal GMT-tracking rolls over to 3/1. It’s either not rolling, or rolling to 2/29, at which point a system tries to add/subtract from 2/29, which it can’t do because the front-end calendar doesn’t have a 2/29/2010. Everything started to collapse around 4PM PDT, which I think is 12AM GMT.
And the PS3 launched in 2006; it’s hit four 2/28s so far. 2007 and 2009 were odd-numbered years; 2008 was an even, and a leap year. 2010 is the first even non-leap-year the system’s been around for. If some sort of base-level math is choking on itself, it may have ruled out the odd 2007 and 2009 successfully, but is convinced the even 2010 is a leap year (this part I’m less sure of, but is why leap year could theoretically come into play at some point).
Read more: http://www.ps3news.com/forums/ps3-online-news/psn-crashed-8001050f-hardware-failure-ps3-consoles-110004-8.html#ixzz0gwTtlc0v

for Sony

think its time to get an xbox

There seems to be a solution for the problem.you have to pull out some back-up battery.
The problem is caused due to the internal clock settings.
I think there are 3 ways to deal with this situation:
1 Grab a big crowbar,hammer and a screwdriver
2 Wait untill midnight + 1 hour
3 Buy the slim one