Allow to use something different than `time.Now` when generating uuids that have a time component

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Go package for UUIDs based on RFC 4122 and DCE 1.1: Authentication and Security Services.

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Open satazor opened 1 month ago

satazor commented 1 month ago

Allow to use something different than time.Now when generating uuids that have a time component.

This is useful for:

Tests
In rare cases where you want to encode a timestamp different than the current time in the id, such as an expiration date.

The package at https://github.com/gofrs/uuid seems to have this functionality, see https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/gofrs/uuid/v5#WithEpochFunc. I would love to have something similar.

it512 commented 1 month ago

If you have special requirements, please use uuidv8