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By Carl Laron on March 1, 2010 in
Sony has officially advised owners of certain PlayStation 3 gaming consoles to avoid using their systems while company engineers work to resolve a bug involving the console's clock. The glitch doesn't impact owners of the current PS3 "slim" systems, but does send older PS3 "fat" systems to the sidelines for the next day or so -- or at least that's what Sony is crossing its fingers for. In a post on the company's official PS3 blog, Patrick Seybold, senior director, corporate communications & social media, says that the company hopes to resolve the problem in the next 24 hours.
The clock error can reset the date of the console to Jan. 1, 2000 and has some other wide-ranging effects. One is that users can't sign in to the PlayStation Network. PCMag.com's Sean Carroll reports that the problem has prevented him from accessing Netflix via the PS3 as well. Trophies, which record a player's achievements within a game, can fail to install, rendering games -- including offline ones -- unplayable. Finally, using the system before the clock error is fixed might make it impossible to restore some recorded data.
