From b61ac3cab6e5f1a07195c3bae4b153f12e7cb854 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Marriner <bruce@sqls.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 15:15:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add working example

---
 README.md | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d8562c1..ecebb8c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ This assumes you already have a working Go environment, if not please see
 go get github.com/bwmarrin/flake
 ```
 
-### Usage
+### Usage Example
 
 Import the package into your project.
 
@@ -30,8 +30,45 @@ the Generate method to get a unique ID. The only argument to the NewNode()
 method is a Node number.  Each node you create must have it's own unique
 Node number. A node number can be any number from 0 to 1023.
 
+** Example Program: **
+
 ```go
-node, err := flake.NewNode(1)
-id := node.Generate()
-fmt.Printf("ID: %d, %s\n", id, id.String())
+package main
+
+import (
+        "fmt"
+        "github.com/bwmarrin/flake"
+)
+
+func main() {
+
+        // Create a new Node with a Node number of 1
+        node, err := flake.NewNode(1)
+        if err != nil {
+                fmt.Println(err)
+                return
+        }
+
+        // Generate a snowflake ID.
+        id, err := node.Generate()
+        if err != nil {
+                fmt.Println(err)
+                return
+        }
+
+        // Print out the ID in a few different ways.
+        fmt.Printf("Int64  ID: %d\n", id)
+        fmt.Printf("String ID: %s\n", id)
+        fmt.Printf("Base2  ID: %s\n", id.Base2())
+        fmt.Printf("Base64 ID: %s\n", id.Base64())
+
+        // Print out the ID's timestamp
+        fmt.Printf("ID Time  : %d\n", id.Time())
+
+        // Print out the ID's node number
+        fmt.Printf("ID Node  : %d\n", id.Node())
+
+        // Print out the ID's sequence number
+        fmt.Printf("ID Step  : %d\n", id.Step())
+}
 ```