Hi,
> That’s a very interesting result, from the UUID POV!
> If time is almost always advancing, using time readings instead of a counter is very reasonable: we have interprocess
monotonicityalmost for free.
> Though time is advancing in a very small steps… RFC assumes that we use microseconds, I’m not sure it’s ok to use 10
morebits for nanoseconds…
A counter is mandatory since someone can for instance change the
system's time while the process is generating UUIDs. You can't
generally assume that local time of the system is monotonic.
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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev