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Re:New UUID Formats – IETF Draft by michaelt on Saturday August 07, 2021 @09:25AM (#28098420)
> Ah yes, nobody will ever need to represent a date/time before 1970-01-01.

If only we had a way to represent numbers less than zero :)

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Re:New UUID Formats – IETF Draft by account42 on Monday August 09, 2021 @03:55AM (#28113719)
Will UUIDs with your favourite encoding for negative numbers put 1969-01-01 before or after 1970-01-01 with a lexicographical sort of the UUID bytes?
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