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UUID version 7, which are time-sortable (following the Peabody RFC4122 draft)

4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2022-01-05 · latest 2026-10-23

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  1. …That was not a fun debugging session. https://pypi.org/project/uuid-utils/ is what you want :) https://github.com/stevesimmons/uuid7/issues/1
    comment by btown · 2026-10-23 · in UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities
  2. …incompatibilities because they implemented the draft spec. and didn’t update when the RFC changed: https://github.com/stevesimmons/uuid7/issues/1 Any Python developer using the uuid7 library is getting something that is incompatible with…
    comment by JimDabell · 2026-03-07 · in UUID package coming to Go standard library
  3. My Python implementation is here: https://github.com/stevesimmons/uuid7 https://pypi.org/project/uuid7/
    comment by stevesimmons · 2022-06-13 · in New UUID Formats
  4. …UUIDv7 is thus the better choice in general. (I recently wrote Python and C# implementations - https://github.com/stevesimmons/uuid7 and https://github.com/stevesimmons/uuid7-csharp )
    comment by stevesimmons · 2022-01-05 · in Understanding UUIDs, ULIDs and string representations