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A comment on UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp). Parent comment

Re:UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash... by michelpp on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:21PM (#45280246)
That still exposes the timestamp, and the shift just drops precision, so I'm not sure what you're going for here.
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Re:UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash... by sergeyprokhoren on Thursday September 18, 2025 @06:53PM (#45296004)
If you shift the timestamp forward by 5 thousand years, it can hardly be called just a decrease in precision.
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