Sony Playstation 3 ‘Bug’ Fixed

Sony said on Monday that it has fixed a major software bug which, earlier in the day, prompted the company to warn millions of PlayStation 3 owners not to use their consoles.

The technological giant, that has sold more than 25 million units of the older consoles of the Playstation, said that “it believed some 20 million consoles might have been affected by a bug in the system clock, which was causing a number of possible errors”.

A glitch in the internal clock of some PlayStation 3 consoles that recognized 2010 as a leap year and wrongly added a Feb. 29 to the clock was resolved by Sony.

A major problem reported by users was that the console set its date to January 1, 2000 by itself and users were unable to reset it. Players were being immediately logged out of the online PlayStation Network when they started the system and were also unable to play games offline.

Sony posted on its PlayStation blog, "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".

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