User:Bayugoon/DIMVID-draft

Derived Informational Minecraft Version IDs (DIMVIDs) are a way of creating a unique and informational id for a version, these ids can store the major version, minor version, development stage and the exact version name. DIMVIDs will also follow the chronological order of version updates so they can be compared to see which version is older or newer. Each DIMVID is 16 hex digits or 64 binary bits, this allows for condensed storage of a version name for things like programs and software.

ID Format
DIMVIDs have 16 hex digits, the 10th digit is reserved for special case versions with the default value of 0x8 and the last 6 digits is the Time Stamp of the version in MM/DD/hh/mm format converted to hex (ex. December 15th 14:34 => 12151434 => 0xB96A8A). The first two digits of the DIMVID is used to determine the edition and format of the version which will determine the format of the 7 "payload" digits.