Update the default ID Formats for 6.1?

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@csam

So the handles are also strings, how sad and ineffective.

Handles are a bit more than just a random string. Nor so ineffective as you are assuming. The handle is a string that is encoded with some metadata meaning.

The handle can be decoded. There’s a discussion in another thread:

Reversing an object handle to its creation date

As a handle is created from the date when an object is created, is it possible to reverse the operation in order to know this creation date? I’ve tried this with Supertool but it don’t work: init: from datetime import date as dt statement: hand = float.fromhex(obj.handle[0:10]) print(hand, dt.fromtimestamp(((hand / 864000000.0 ) + 2440587.5)), ((hand / 864000000.0 ) + 2440587.5 )) I’ve tried to vary hex extraction from [0:8] to [0:16] but that doesn’t work too: 3967677919.0 1970-01-29 244…