Just use UUIDs as they were meant to be used, as a random identifier. Don't shove random other junk into it!
The point of shoving the timestamp into it is to make it work well with database indexes. UUIDv4 is awful in that regard.
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The point of shoving the timestamp into it is to make it work well with database indexes. UUIDv4 is awful in that regard.