PS3 Clock Bug Sorted Out – Sony Explains

So yesterday will go down in many PlayStation 3 owners diaries as the of Error 8001050F, or the 29th February 2010 or was it 1st December 1999?Anyway the world wide clock bug has been squash and fixed by itself. The internal clock of the older pre-slim PS3′s recognized the year 2010 as a leap year, having the internal clock date change from February 29 to March 1. This cause many game to be unplayable, trophies lost and connection to the PSN impossible.

The fix was to simply wait 24hrs when the internal clock would turn over to 1st March and all would be sorted. You would simply have to correct the date yourself or via the Internet.

Patrick Seybold, Sr. Director of Corporate Communications & Social Media, posted on the PlayStation Blog that if the date is still incorrect on older systems, it can be manually corrected.

“If the time displayed on the XMB is still incorrect, users are able to adjust time settings manually or via the internet, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused,” Seybold says.

If for some reason you have lost some trophy data over the past 24 hours, there may be a way to salvage it. Launch the game for which you’re trying to restore Trophies and it should automatically recreate a Trophy data set on your PS3′s memory, which you can then sync with the PSN server (just by opening up your Trophy list in the XMB).