Identifiers and time
Distributed identifiers, UUIDs, instants, time zones and ordering.
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Guides
Guides connected to this category.
UUID v1, v4 and v7: generation, ordering, collisions and ID design
Comparing UUID versions and choosing between random, time-based and time-sortable identifiers.
UTC, offsets, time zones, DST and ISO 8601
How to distinguish absolute instants, UTC offsets and geographic time-zone rules in software systems.