After 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds of continuous uptime, your Mac quietly loses the ability to establish new internet connections. Apps stop working, websites fail to load, and your CPU starts working significantly harder than it should. The bug lives in how macOS tracks time for managing network connections. The operating system uses a 32 bit counter, which can hold values up to 4,294,967,295 milliseconds. That ceiling corresponds precisely to 49.7 days of continuous...
