timehat v0.0.1

timehat

monotonic-timestamp + hat = sortable unique ids

Installing

npm install timehat

Example

var timehat = require('timehat');

// generate an id
var id = timehat();

console.log(id); // => 1427d622ee0-6275f867ebea2afd3c3ef32599cc1d93

// extract date from an id
console.log(timehat.toDate(id)); // => Thu Nov 21 2013 17:17:35 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time (Mexico))

API

id = timehat([bits, base])

Generate a timestamped unique id.

timehat.toDate(id, base)

Extract date from id.

License

MIT