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In my work, today's date would be 21K11, to save space over the longer date.

Are you working in some embedded system with tiny memory space or something? What's the use of saving one character? Just make it YYMMDD!

How do you distinguish 21K111 and 21K111?

Are you trying to catch GP on differentiating hours, were it to be appended to his time format (1st @ 11 vs 11th @ 1am)?

Notably he didn't promise any, but presumably one'd need a separator... Maybe, per his "K" usage of the month, one'd use the alphabet again. 11am would be "K" again... or lowercase just for giggles?

I don't think it reads very well, but I also think one'd get used to it pretty quickly.

I was thinking January 11th vs November 1st. Maybe their "date" doesn't need/support day-of-month? Or they typod and I should just focus on my work.

I imagine January is A and November is K, so 21A11 vs. 21K1 (or maybe 21K01).

Ah yes, I missed that K was a month.

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