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Fyi, the timestamp is already encoded inside uuid4. But for having a good distribution of values, the low bits half of the timestamp is stored before the high b

Fyi, the timestamp is already encoded inside uuid4. But for having a good distribution of values, the low bits half of the timestamp is stored before the high bits half. Here uuidv7 will just re-order that. So the content of the uuid in itself does not change.

mafuy 3y ago
No, this was the case in earlier uuids. In v4, there is no timestamp.
- greatgib 3y ago
  Indeed you are right, just the other ones.