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 monotonicity almost 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 more bits 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. -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev
