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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by burnte on Monday August 05, 2024 @03:07PM (#41164364)
> Whenever I hear that any IDs could be "recycled", I make a mental note to replace the person making such a proposal from all teams that I am involved in.

There's an EMR/EHR we use at my employer that reuses UUIDs. If an appointment is moved/rescheduled, the UUID is reused for that appointment meaning the UUID is no longer UU. It causes major issues with other apps that interact with the EMR/EHR, to the point we have to educate users to cancel and create new rather than rescheduling appointments.

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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by kelnos on Monday August 05, 2024 @03:33PM (#41164624)
That seems... fine... to me? It's not a different appointment; the time has just been changed. It feels like that's a bug with the other apps: they are assuming that they can cache all metadata associated with an appointment and that nothing will ever change, but that's a bad assumption.
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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by pasc1878 on Monday August 05, 2024 @03:42PM (#41164739)
Well that would depend on what the written specification of that id is.

Is it the id of the appointment at that time or is it the id for the appoint meant.

Seems like the originator chose the latter and the others the former.

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