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Re:Timing the time it takes to parse time by to3m on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:53PM (#12702140)
Y>>24 will be the byte at +3 on a little-endian system, or +0 on a big-endian system. It's therefore the digit in the 10^0 column in the former case, or the 10^3 column in the latter.

So it actually looks like it currently assumes a big-endian system.

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