That worldwide PS3 crash

So the official word is that it's been "resolved", note that Sony are not saying it's been fixed. They do seem to still be pushing the PSN angle despite credible sources stating their stand-alone non-networked consoles were also affected.

This would mean the top suspect is a conflict within the 'fat' PS3's themselves. Suggestions have it that the BIOS keeps the time in UTC and when booted up passes this information to the OS which compensates for any time difference. So at midnight if the BIOS switched from 28/2 to 29/2 and tried to pass this information to the OS it would be trying to add or subtract from an non-existent date and reset to a default.

Of course the BIOS should now think it's 1/3 and the OS should be quite happy. Unlike its users who may have lost trophies they hadn't synced before the 'crash'.

[Update - yep I switched it on this afternoon and it thought it was the 1st March. A quick jump to the time setting and I allowed it to update from the 'net and 2nd March it is.

As this didn't happen last year one suspects this is an even numbered year thing, which means in theory Sony now have just under two years to fix it.

Why should they bother? Well even though none of these boxes would be covered by the official warranty by this time, UK law does cover faults that are inherent to the system outside that time frame]