Module:TwitterSnowflake/gen

local p = {}

local function numberToBinStr(x) ret="" while x~=1 and x~=0 do		ret=tostring(x%2)..ret x=math.modf(x/2) end ret=tostring(x)..ret return ret end

function p.getSnowflake local sequence = "000000000000" -- 12 sequence bits local shard = "0000000000" -- 10 shard bits local epoch = 1288834974 local time = os.time local timestamp = time - epoch local timestampbinary = numberToBinStr(timestamp..math.random(0,9)..math.random(0,9)..math.random(0,9)) -- lua only provides time, so we append three random digits as "milliseconds" local snowflakebinary = timestampbinary .. shard .. sequence return string.format("%18.0f",tonumber(snowflakebinary,2)) end

return p