Fat PS3 crashes around the world due to incorrect date changes

Numerous sources tonight reported that a huge number of PS3 “Fat” owners (all models up to Slim ) faced a very unpleasant problem, which is most often accompanied by error 8001050F.

To begin with, we are talking about the banal inability to start games with trophy support (those who did not get through Heavy Rain until they can do it), trophy data are not displayed correctly, all content downloaded from PSN does not work.

Some advise you not to turn on the PS3 until Sony fixes the problem, and the company's specialists are already actively working to resolve it. Others recommend not trying to connect to the Network, pull the cable out of the console, but some PS3 owners claim to have caught the error without even logging on to the Network, and this is very sad.
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It seems that the error is related to the internal calendar, the console exposes 1999 instead of March 1, 2010. Manually change the date does not work. NeoGaf suggested that the problem is this: 2010 is the first even and not leap year after the PS3 launch (2006 was the same, but the console started only in the autumn, so there were no problems). And it introduced a system into a stupor.

Once again, we advise you not to turn on the console until details on this matter are available, and also recall that the PS3 Slim has bypassed the problem for the owners.

via gametech

Currently Sony tweeter reports the following:

We know that many of you have problems with PSN, and yes, we are trying to fix them. Stay in touch and keep up to date with all the updates.
PSN status update: We have narrowed the problem and continue to work to fix it for everyone. Updates will be as fast as we can.
PSN status update (part 2): Readers / followers have confirmed that the “slim” versions (120 / 250GB) are connected normally.

We follow the situation and do not turn on the console until the patch appears!