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by dloreto 1086 days ago
The CLI tool will support encoding/decoding any valid UUID, whether v1, v4, or v7. We picked v7 as the definition of the spec, because we need to choose one of them when generating a new random ID, and our opinion is that by default, that should be v7.

We might add a warning in the future if you decode/encode something that is not v7, but if it suits your use-case to encode UUIDv4 in this way, go for it. Just keep in mind that you'll lose the locality property.