diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 66a3a895..d3605105 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -141,6 +141,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "num-traits",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "atomic"
+version = "0.5.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c59bdb34bc650a32731b31bd8f0829cc15d24a708ee31559e0bb34f2bc320cba"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "atomic-write-file"
 version = "0.1.2"
@@ -3758,6 +3764,7 @@ version = "1.6.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5e395fcf16a7a3d8127ec99782007af141946b4795001f876d54fb0d55978560"
 dependencies = [
+ "atomic",
  "getrandom",
  "serde",
 ]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5cb98774..b245d259 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ semver = "1.0.20"
 serde = { version = "1.0.193", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.108"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
-uuid = { version = "1.3", features = ["v4", "serde"] }
+uuid = { version = "1.3", features = ["v4", "v7", "serde"] }
 whoami = "1.1.2"
 typed-builder = "0.18.0"
 pretty_assertions = "1.3.0"
diff --git a/atuin-common/src/utils.rs b/atuin-common/src/utils.rs
index 8358802a..59050b96 100644
--- a/atuin-common/src/utils.rs
+++ b/atuin-common/src/utils.rs
@@ -12,36 +12,8 @@ pub fn random_bytes<const N: usize>() -> [u8; N] {
     ret
 }
 
-// basically just ripped from the uuid crate. they have it as unstable, but we can use it fine.
-const fn encode_unix_timestamp_millis(millis: u64, random_bytes: &[u8; 10]) -> Uuid {
-    let millis_high = ((millis >> 16) & 0xFFFF_FFFF) as u32;
-    let millis_low = (millis & 0xFFFF) as u16;
-
-    let random_and_version =
-        (random_bytes[0] as u16 | ((random_bytes[1] as u16) << 8) & 0x0FFF) | (0x7 << 12);
-
-    let mut d4 = [0; 8];
-
-    d4[0] = (random_bytes[2] & 0x3F) | 0x80;
-    d4[1] = random_bytes[3];
-    d4[2] = random_bytes[4];
-    d4[3] = random_bytes[5];
-    d4[4] = random_bytes[6];
-    d4[5] = random_bytes[7];
-    d4[6] = random_bytes[8];
-    d4[7] = random_bytes[9];
-
-    Uuid::from_fields(millis_high, millis_low, random_and_version, &d4)
-}
-
 pub fn uuid_v7() -> Uuid {
-    let bytes = random_bytes();
-    let now: u64 = u64::try_from(
-        time::OffsetDateTime::now_utc().unix_timestamp_nanos() / 1_000_000,
-    )
-    .expect("Either you're in the past (1970) - or your in the far future (2554). Good for you");
-
-    encode_unix_timestamp_millis(now, &bytes)
+    Uuid::now_v7()
 }
 
 pub fn uuid_v4() -> String {