square/cube — Issue #16: Times in ObjectIDs instead of 't' field?
Author: mrkurt
Created: 2011-10-14 17:33:05+00:00
State: open

ObjectIDs have a time encoded in the first 4 bytes and there are benefits to using that instead of a time field in very large, active collections. There aren't really many downsides, but it does make it slightly more difficult to glance at a doc and see the time.

If I went through and switched from a time field to ObjectID based times, would you consider merging those changes in? I was going to just do it and submit a pull request, but it'll take a fair bit of work so it seems better to ask ahead of time.