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A comment on New UUID Formats – IETF Draft. Parent comment

Re:New UUID Formats – IETF Draft by datavirtue on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:00PM (#28090770)
Hmmm...Now I'm wondering why I never bothered to prepend a timestamp to a GUID.
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Re:New UUID Formats – IETF Draft by orf on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:03PM (#28090806)
Because then it wouldn’t be a UUID in a format that other systems might expect or work more efficiently with.
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