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Time-based UUID (version 1) on iOS?

How can we create a RFC 4122 complaint UUID (version 1, time-based) with iOS?

Solution

  • Here's the man page of the underlying library used by CFUUID and NSUUID. It contains the time based creation function:

    #include <uuid/uuid.h>

uuid_generate_time(uuid_t);

    It's contained in iOS as well.