3DS reset its own clock???

stickymice said:

I almost had a heart attack just now when I started up ACNL and Isabelle said hello and that it was 12:00AM January 1st 2012.

I was sort of not paying full attention and I almost started up the game.... which would have been disastrous to say the least and involve lots of time travel for weeks and weeks to get back to the correct date without damaging my town.

I just have no idea how that could have happened? It is such a specific time/date that it makes me think I hit some kind of reset function by accident somewhere, but I have no idea how. It freaks me out.

Fortunately I force quit the game and went into settings and fixed the date on my 3DS to the correct one, and everything seems to be normal so far. At this stage if I lost my town's progress I think there would be many tears.

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hulaburger said:

Yeah, this has happened to me. From reading online, it's a battery issue. If the battery is fully dead off for over 10 seconds, the date resets itself to the default... January 1st, 2012

Mine resolved itself, only fix it if this happens constantly. It's NBD if it happens a few times, you probably just need to charge it more.
You can take off the backplate and put a piece of paper over it make sure the battery doesn't get loose or if you have serious issues, buy a replacement battery and swap it out. I
t's really easy. The battery is the first thing you see after you unscrew the cover so it's super easy.

For the o3ds you need a 0 or 00 phillips head screwdriver, I think I used a 0. Idk about the other models. Photos of the thing here. Just the first step on battery cover. Don't go any further.
http://www.ign.com/wikis/nintendo-3ds/3DS_XL_Shell_Swapping

Again, I wouldn't bother changing the battery unless it's a frequent issue or your battery dies a lot and charges weakly. Also Check your warranty to make sure you don't void it.
All the data is in the SD card so battery issues won't damage anything.

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