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Sony: PSN now fully restored, outage due to leap year reading

Posted Mar 1, 2010 at 10:55PM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: PS3 Tags: playstation 3 updates, psn, Sony

Rejoice! The PlayStation Network service is now fully restored! After a major meltdown yesterday, it looks like the outage yesterday has been resolved as promised. Sony has promised that a patch will be released come this morning, and now, they've released an official announcement proclaiming that the fix has been effective.

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"We are aware that the internal clock functionality in the PS3 units other than the slim model, recognized the year 2010 as a leap year. Having the internal clock date change from February 29 to March 1 (both GMT), we have verified that the symptoms are now resolved and that users are able to use their PS3 normally.

If the time displayed on the XMB is still incorrect, users are able to adjust time settings manually or via the Internet. If we have new information, we will update you through the PlayStation.Blog or PlayStation.com. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

Via [PlayStation Blog US]

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It didnt really "fix itself" Like some people are trying to say. The authentication servers would not allow the dates the ps3 was trying to show onto the server. Sony just changed a few protocols and are prolly going to include a hotfix or just tag it in with the next firmware update. Gotta love those buggy NTS servers!

# RE: It was a Server Side Fix.. — Guest 2010-03-02 05:25

Yes it did fix itself. Mine isn't connected to the internet but broke like everyone else's and fixed itself

# Wtf? — Guest 2010-03-02 11:48

Wait, if it was a problem with the PSN then how can your playstation have been broke if it wasn't connected to the internet? Wtf? How would you fucking know at that point? Doesn't make any sense toolbag. How can the PSN be broke for you if you don't connect to the internet?

# Because STUPID — cloudhaacker 2010-03-03 00:26

Even if you don't have internet, it wouldn't let you play games like heavy rain. It happened to me, and I thought, well, i'll just turn of the internet and set my clock manually, and it still wouldn't work. Games with trophy support must still talk to the internal clocks of these things somehow, it was a major kick in the pants! You know, you don't have to be such a d*ck about this stuff, when you obviously don't even know whats going on!

# ... — FreePlay 2010-03-02 04:34

BS!

If it were related to the leap year, it would not have happened *ON* the 28th.

# ... — ChevyJackson 2010-03-02 05:57

It's not some kind of conspiracy, dude. All PS3 internal clocks run on GMT time, so when the bug happened, it happened at 12:00AM GMT on March 1st. GMT is only one time zone, so the bug might have happened at a different time in another time zone, but all the PS3s experienced the bug at the same moment.

-1 # RE: ... — Guest 2010-03-02 09:22

You are a complete Tool. the PS3's INTERNAL clock is set to GMT. Once that date hit in GMT (Not PST, MST, CST or EST, if youre in the US) then It bombed. It fixed itself again the next day at 12:00 AM GMT.

Tool...

# RE: ... — gammy69er 2010-03-03 06:09

Quoting FreePlay:

BS!

If it were related to the leap year, it would not have happened *ON* the 28th.

I'm With you - if it was related to 29 th Feb, why couldn't i change the date TO the 29th feb - i thinks this is about Geohot's Hack.

# RE: RE: ... — Guest 2010-03-03 13:27

then why did it effect systems that arent connected to the internet, and why did those systems that were still not connected to the internet suddenly fix themselves at 00:00 GMT on march 2?

# It didnt... — Uplink 2010-03-02 04:48

NTS is general and most of the time has its own timezone depending on where it is or how its used it was expecting a certain date at a certain time it didnt see it so it wouldnt allow logins. There were several reports of offline units having issues with time/date witch is why the patch/hotfix is coming. It was a software issue on older consoles that coincided with Server issues.

As for all the conspiracy with the gehotz crap thats just garbage that hack is still next to useless without drivers being made.

-2 # RE: Sony: PSN now fully restored, outage due to leap year reading — friggingreat 2010-03-02 06:42

It had nothing to do with the servers! It waas an internal clock that had the error, poeple with ps3's not connected to the internet had the same problem! Sony was just waiting for the internal clock to change to march and told everyone they had done a great job fixing it! Just wait four year till the next PHANTOM LEAP! Oh Boy!

# If it was Just the Internal Clock — Uplink 2010-03-02 11:26

Then you would have to reset it yourself, The ps3 couldn't magically know what date it is without NTS. Most offliners had to manually reset there clocks the "auto fixers" where fixed via NTS.

# kinda weak — Aces In The Palm 2010-03-03 07:42

ps3 doesnt know its 4 times tables LOL
oh well i still love it

# Easy fix for other years... — Guest 2010-03-02 09:55

All they need to do is add a function in the boot section of the next firmware update that checks for the date being 2/29 on any year that doesn't satisfy (year%4==0) and change it to 2/1 without the user knowing.

Was there any possible way to fix the clock manually from 12/31/99 yesterday? It would've prevented all this BS. I didn't turn my PS3 on and it said 3/1 this morning.

Actually, now that I think about it, it might've only affected the date of the console if it tried to connect to a server. So anyone could've turned on their console, changed the date to 3/1/2010 and it might've worked. But don't most internal clocks use a certain date as the "beginning of time" (like 12/31/69 in Unix) to measure the date when connected to other machines?

Meh, it's fixed now and Xbox fanboys had their 24 hours of glee.

# ... — Guest 2010-03-03 10:25

Yeah, us 360 fanboys really had some fun while you couldn't play with your black boxes! Man, 24 best hours of my life!

Seriously, get a life. I don't think anyone else other than PS3 users who couldn't access PSN or games even gave two sh*ts about this. No offense. That's just how it is.

And I'm getting tired of all the PS3 fanboys complaining about imaginary 360 fanbots, most of whom are just PS3 fantrolls in disguise.

# . — Guest 2010-03-02 10:17

It was like the revenge of the Y2K bug.

# RE: Sony: PSN now fully restored, outage due to leap year reading — Kam 2010-03-02 12:11

nothin sony cant fix.. microsoft must have had a bloodrush seeing all this fiasco -thinking they might sell more xbox consoles due to sony's "failure". pfff lol

# RE: Sony: PSN now fully restored, outage due to leap year reading — Davidthefat 2010-03-02 12:21

Sounds like the mellenium bug on Windows

+1 # RE: Sony: PSN now fully restored, outage due to leap year reading — Glenn M. 2010-03-02 12:42

my white phat ps3 didn't experience any problems.. might be worth noting..

# playstation 3 — chuck.fx 2010-03-02 20:46

it only does self-resurrection.

# RE: Sony: PSN now fully restored, outage due to leap year reading — Guest 2010-03-02 21:33

Yep they called it The austrich fix. Put your head in the sand and hope for it to go away!

BTW, both PSN and PS3 were down. Got an newer phat that wasn't affected, but could log in PSN but not play any games online.

# trophies — Guest 2010-03-03 02:20

will anything happen about my trophies that disappeared?

# RE: trophies — Navani 2010-03-03 22:09

Quoting bobfred:

will anything happen about my trophies that disappeared?

I read an article that said they lost their Heavy Rain trophies, but when they launched the game after the fix it restored their trophies. Try that.

# haha — Guest 2010-03-03 20:22

i have a slim and didnt have that problem

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