diff --git a/components/uid.rst b/components/uid.rst
index 6c92fff0af9..3a20758537e 100644
--- a/components/uid.rst
+++ b/components/uid.rst
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ of the UUID value is specific to each implementation and no format should be ass
     use Symfony\Component\Uid\Uuid;
 
     // $uuid is an instance of Symfony\Component\Uid\UuidV8
-    $uuid = Uuid::v8();
+    $uuid = Uuid::v8('d9e7a184-5d5b-11ea-a62a-3499710062d0');
 
 If your UUID value is already generated in another format, use any of the
 following methods to create a ``Uuid`` object from it::