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I am confused how this is new. UUIDv1 is time based, you just need to be careful about entropy, and in MySQL 8 you can for a longish time use it as an ordered field.

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The use of a MAC address and fine grained timestamp are challenges of UUIDv1.

https://blog.devgenius.io/analyzing-new-unique-identifier-fo...

Sure, hence why I said entropy, but it's not like you can't use it :)

And the crazy epoch instead the more known Unix epoch. Why would anyone want to create UUIDs around year 1500?

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