UUID.time

>>> import uuid

>>> # make a UUID based on the host ID and current time
>>> uuid.uuid1()
UUID('a8098c1a-f86e-11da-bd1a-00112444be1e')

>>> # make a UUID using an MD5 hash of a namespace UUID and a name
>>> uuid.uuid3(uuid.NAMESPACE_DNS, 'python.org')
UUID('6fa459ea-ee8a-3ca4-894e-db77e160355e')

>>> # make a random UUID
>>> uuid.uuid4()
UUID('16fd2706-8baf-433b-82eb-8c7fada847da')

>>> # make a UUID using a SHA-1 hash of a namespace UUID and a name
>>> uuid.uuid5(uuid.NAMESPACE_DNS, 'python.org')
UUID('886313e1-3b8a-5372-9b90-0c9aee199e5d')

>>> # make a UUID from a string of hex digits (braces and hyphens ignored)
>>> x = uuid.UUID('{00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f}')

>>> # convert a UUID to a string of hex digits in standard form
>>> str(x)
'00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f'

>>> # get the raw 16 bytes of the UUID
>>> x.bytes
b'\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08\t\n\x0b\x0c\r\x0e\x0f'

>>> # make a UUID from a 16-byte bytes object
>>> uuid.UUID(bytes=x.bytes)
UUID('00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f')

>>> # get the Nil UUID
>>> uuid.NIL
UUID('00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000')

>>> # get the Max UUID
>>> uuid.MAX
UUID('ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff')

>>> # same as UUIDv1 but with fields reordered to improve DB locality
>>> uuid.uuid6()
UUID('1f0799c0-98b9-62db-92c6-a0d365b91053')

>>> # get UUIDv7 creation (local) time as a timestamp in milliseconds
>>> u = uuid.uuid7()
>>> u.time
1743936859822

>>> # get UUIDv7 creation (local) time as a datetime object
>>> import datetime as dt
>>> dt.datetime.fromtimestamp(u.time / 1000)
datetime.datetime(...)

>>> # make a UUID with custom blocks
>>> uuid.uuid8(0x12345678, 0x9abcdef0, 0x11223344)
UUID('00001234-5678-8ef0-8000-000011223344')