This weekend, mine was one of millions of fat PlayStation 3′s that became neigh-well unusuable for over 24 hours when the PlayStation Network refused to allow any sign-ins due to a Y2K holdover issue related to leap year (or the lack of one this year).

My PS3′s date and time were reset to 1/1/1999 and could only be re-set manually. Even after that, one could still not sign in to PSN, and any game that used trophies – even when played offline – were unusable. You couldn’t even sign into the PlayStation Store to shop gifts for Mothers Day … or any other day, for that matter.

Sony’s slow-to-respond response? “Wait for a day or so, and this’ll correct itself.” Yeah, real nice, Sony.

The Error 8001050F incident – or Blackout Sunday, as I like calling it – is not a first for PSN; it occurred in 2008 as well. Sony needs to fix this permanently via a system update so that it never happens again.

Foul us up once, Sony, shame on us. Foul us up twice with the same Error 8001050F? Shame on you.