Technical Help

[FlipC]

Am I the only one who's noticed that the slim PS3 clock constantly gains time?

My original fat PS3 never seemed to suffer from this; my original PS2 managed to only gain 10 minutes after being powered off for three years.

My parent's slim PS3 gained an hour and a half over three months that's about a minute a day which tallys with my experience.

As there's no auto-check function it's become almost routine for me to reset the time upon connections and frankly it's a joke. If I had another other time-keeping piece of equipment that gained at this rate I'd declare it broken.

So Sony was this a cost-cutting measure with a new cheap chip or some software failure to count correctly?

[Nakatsu_Hime]

The PS3's internal clock is about as accurate as any clock on any high-end PC. That is... not very!
It's a shame you can't get the system to automatically sync via the internet on a regular basis.

[FlipC]

Except all the computers I use seem to be about seven times more accurate gaining maybe a minute per week. Over a three month period without intervention I'd expect a gain of around quarter of an hour not an hour and a half.

[Nakatsu_Hime]

I've never measured it. That does seem a tad flacky.

Your PS3 isn't located around a localised area of high gravitation, such as a black hole? This would have that effect. If it is, I suggest moving it.