diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION b/release-notes/VERSION
index 64add4f..f621b53 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Releases
 5.0.0 (not yet released)
 
 #53: Increase JDK baseline to JDK 8
+#81: Add `UUIDUtil.extractTimestamp()` for extracting 64-bit timestamp for
+  all timestamp-based versions
+ (requested by @gabrielbalan)
+ (contributed by @magdel)
 #85: Fix `LazyRandom` for native code generation tools
  (contributed by @Maia-Everett)
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/uuid/impl/UUIDUtil.java b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/uuid/impl/UUIDUtil.java
index 41c8984..60ce671 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/uuid/impl/UUIDUtil.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/uuid/impl/UUIDUtil.java
@@ -353,4 +353,66 @@ private final static void _checkUUIDByteArray(byte[] bytes, int offset)
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid offset ("+offset+") passed: not enough room in byte array (need 16 bytes)");
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Extract 64-bit timestamp from time-based UUIDs (if time-based type);
+     * returns 0 for other types.
+     *
+     * @param uuid uuid timestamp to extract from
+     *
+     * @return timestamp in milliseconds (since Epoch), or 0 if type does not support timestamps
+     *
+     * @since 5.0.0
+     */
+    public static long extractTimestamp(UUID uuid)
+    {
+        UUIDType type = typeOf(uuid);
+        if (type == null) {
+            // Likely null UUID:
+            return 0L;
+        }
+        switch (type) {
+            case NAME_BASED_SHA1:
+            case UNKNOWN:
+            case DCE:
+            case RANDOM_BASED:
+            case FREE_FORM:
+            case NAME_BASED_MD5:
+                return 0L;
+            case TIME_BASED:
+                return _getTimestampFromUuidV1(uuid);
+            case TIME_BASED_REORDERED:
+                return _getTimestampFromUuidV6(uuid);
+            case TIME_BASED_EPOCH:
+                return _getTimestampFromUuidV7(uuid);
+            default:
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid `UUID`: unexpected type " + type);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static long _getTimestampFromUuidV1(UUID uuid) {
+        long mostSignificantBits = uuid.getMostSignificantBits();
+        mostSignificantBits = mostSignificantBits & 0b1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1110_1111_1111_1111L;
+        long low = mostSignificantBits >>> 32;
+        long lowOfHigher = mostSignificantBits & 0xFFFF0000L;
+        lowOfHigher = lowOfHigher >>> 16;
+        long highOfHigher = mostSignificantBits & 0xFFFFL;
+        return highOfHigher << 48 | lowOfHigher << 32 | low;
+    }
+
+    private static long _getTimestampFromUuidV6(UUID uuid) {
+        long mostSignificantBits = uuid.getMostSignificantBits();
+        mostSignificantBits = mostSignificantBits & 0b1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1001_1111_1111_1111L;
+        long lowL = mostSignificantBits & 0xFFFL;
+        long lowH = mostSignificantBits & 0xFFFF0000L;
+        lowH = lowH >>> 16;
+        long high = mostSignificantBits & 0xFFFFFFFF00000000L;
+        return high >>> 4 | lowH << 12 | lowL;
+    }
+
+    private static long _getTimestampFromUuidV7(UUID uuid) {
+        long mostSignificantBits = uuid.getMostSignificantBits();
+        mostSignificantBits = mostSignificantBits & 0b1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1111_1001_1111_1111_1111L;
+        return mostSignificantBits >>> 16;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/uuid/impl/UUIDUtilTest.java b/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/uuid/impl/UUIDUtilTest.java
index 2e43517..bcf972f 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/uuid/impl/UUIDUtilTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/uuid/impl/UUIDUtilTest.java
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 package com.fasterxml.uuid.impl;
 
+import java.util.Random;
 import java.util.UUID;
 
+import com.fasterxml.uuid.Generators;
 import junit.framework.TestCase;
 
 /**
@@ -13,6 +15,8 @@
  */
 public class UUIDUtilTest extends TestCase
 {
+    final static int TEST_REPS = 1_000_000;
+
     public void testNilUUID() {
         UUID nil = UUIDUtil.nilUUID();
         // Should be all zeroes:
@@ -26,4 +30,41 @@ public void testMaxUUID() {
         assertEquals(~0, max.getMostSignificantBits());
         assertEquals(~0, max.getLeastSignificantBits());
     }
+
+    public void testExtractTimestampUUIDTimeBased() {
+        TimeBasedGenerator generator = Generators.timeBasedGenerator();
+        final Random rnd = new Random(1);
+        for (int i = 0; i < TEST_REPS; i++) {
+            long rawTimestamp = rnd.nextLong() >>> 4;
+            UUID uuid = generator.construct(rawTimestamp);
+            assertEquals(rawTimestamp, UUIDUtil.extractTimestamp(uuid));
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void testExtractTimestampUUIDTimeBasedReordered() {
+        TimeBasedReorderedGenerator generator = Generators.timeBasedReorderedGenerator();
+        final Random rnd = new Random(2);
+        for (int i = 0; i < TEST_REPS; i++) {
+            long rawTimestamp = rnd.nextLong() >>> 4;
+            UUID uuid = generator.construct(rawTimestamp);
+            assertEquals(rawTimestamp, UUIDUtil.extractTimestamp(uuid));
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void testExtractTimestampUUIDEpochBased() {
+        TimeBasedEpochGenerator generator = Generators.timeBasedEpochGenerator();
+        final Random rnd = new Random(3);
+        for (int i = 0; i < TEST_REPS; i++) {
+            long rawTimestamp = rnd.nextLong() >>> 16;
+            UUID uuid = generator.construct(rawTimestamp);
+            assertEquals(rawTimestamp, UUIDUtil.extractTimestamp(uuid));
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void testExtractTimestampUUIDOnOtherValues() {
+        assertEquals(0L, UUIDUtil.extractTimestamp(null));
+        assertEquals(0L, UUIDUtil.extractTimestamp(UUID.fromString("00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000")));
+        assertEquals(0L, UUIDUtil.extractTimestamp(UUIDUtil.nilUUID()));
+        assertEquals(0L, UUIDUtil.extractTimestamp(UUIDUtil.maxUUID()));
+    }
 }