Generate time from shortened ulid?
beevor opened this issue · comments
I use shortened ulid
s where I truncate the randomness part of the ulid
(last 16 characters) and use the timestamp portion (first ten characters) as keys in a database. The reason being that the timestamp alone offers sufficient resolution, with the randomness increasing the storage size with no benefit. Now, if I want to recover the time from the timestamp portion, decodeTime()
requires a full length (26 char) ulid
, though, strictly speaking, only the first 10 chars encode time information. Can decodeTime()
be modified to allow both a 26 char and a 10 char ulid
, or is there something else I am missing? I know I can generate my own random portion, concatenate it with the truncated ulid
, and then call decodeTime()
, but that seems circuitous.