[quote name='dgwillia006']Doesnt matter whether you go online or not, its still affected. I was playing fine all day, DC'd, restarted, and got the error. EVERY Phat (Or atleast the massive majority), is getting this error, while hardly any Slims are affected[/QUOTE]
I didn't even turn on any of my PS3 units (all Phats of course) due to the news.
Interesting situation, the more I read about it the more it sounds like the date calculations are doing it but I still can't understand why manually changing the date doesn't work; unless it is that the chip that tracks the date can't be changed but the variable to adjust the system date based on that chip's value is.
If that is the case, I would think that it is not a fixable situation and only patchable as over time it will happen again and again. I hope the patch is such that in 30 years when I retire I can break out my classic PS3 to catch up on my backlog of games and not have a dead system. I tend to think someone is not going to want to figure this out so the system works in 30 years but might do so for a 10 year fix and then hope i gets readdressed then.