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The Gregorian epoch was chosen for UUID v6 in order to make it as similar to v1 as possible, for ease of updating existing software. There are two more types of
by pjscott 5y ago
The Gregorian epoch was chosen for UUID v6 in order to make it as similar to v1 as possible, for ease of updating existing software. There are two more types of UUID proposed in this draft RFC: v7 which uses the Unix epoch and allows more time precision, and v8 which can use any monotonic timestamp source.