Sony Playstation3 Leap Year Bug resolved… users sigh of relief!

All the Playstation3 players went under dilemma as their gaming consoles crashed all together on 1st March 2010! Was it some sort of supernatural effect that damaged all the games collectively? What was the mystery behind the common error in Sony Playstation3 on 1st March 2010? Any guesses?

Well, Sony has come up with the reason and of course the solution. The error was a blunder in the programming section of the game which read the year 2010 as a leap year! That was the reason why the gaming console couldn’t trace the date properly and it crashed for 24hours at a stretch.

Sky News reports that Sony fixed the problem of date and time after 24hours harassment among the users. They had given a written statement which admitted that the problem lied in the clock functionality of the Playstation3. The internal clock was set to read the year 2010 as a leap year!

And the result? A horrible chaos among the users who were shown the message on 1st March 2010 that said the users were not longer signed in to the PlayStation Network (8001050F). And if that was not enough to perplex them, the date was automatically changed to 1st January, 2000! They couldn’t even set back the time as the console informed of the unavailability of the required time and date.

Wait…there were more traumas in store for the players! Many lost their data and the saved games and ‘trophies’. And that infuriated them so much that they actually had threatened to sue Sony!

The error occurred in only the older fat versions and not in the newer ones. It was funny however to see 2nd March 2010 a day after 28th February 2010 in more than three million PS3 consoles in the UK!

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