xim-id

The program xim-id a xim-id

xim-ids are quazi‐ monotonically‐increasing unique‐identifiers that fit within 64-bits (i.e, 8-bytes), that are safe to use as a file or directory name, and where lexical-ordering of the xim-id (under Unicode & ASCII) is in-practice also temporal-ordering of the xim-id (almost all of the time)

Example xim-id

A xim-id looks something like this:

xi-556PVvNyq3m

Usage №1

To use the program xim-id, run it as following:

xim-id

This will output a xim-id, such as:

xi-557ksIsNSRm

… with a trailing new-line at the end.

Usage №2

To do almost exactly the same as that, but with no trailing new-line line, use the program xim-id as follows:

xim-id -n

Usage №3

To do almost exactly the same as usage №1, but where one specifies the time using unix-time, use the program xim-id as follows:

xim-id --unixtime=189368700

Usage №4

And again, to do almost exactly the same as usage №3, but with no trailing new-line line, use the program xim-id as follows:

xim-id -n --unixtime=189368700

Usage №5

To take a xim-id (such as xi-557ksIsNSRm) and decompile it into its unix-time timestamp and its chaos, run the program xim-id as follows:

xim-id decompile xi-557ksIsNSRm

xim-id

For more information on xim-ids see:

• https://codeberg.org/reiver/go-xim