alt Hacker NewsJust a stupid question, but why not append the date, even in seconds as hex. It's just a few bytes and would guarantee that everything OK now will be OK in the future?
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mittermayr • yesterday at 8:35 AM
yeah, any sort of additional semi-random data could've helped prevent this, I'm sure. That, however, is also kind of the idea of UUIDv4, it has lots of randomness and time built in already.
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pan69 • yesterday at 9:39 AM
> but why not append the date
And use uuid v5 to hash it :)
You can just use a different UUID variant which includes timestamp data instead (e.g. v1 or v7), there are also variants which include the MAC address.