Agreed in the general case (in other words: for the syscall interface).
But the internal representation on disk is mostly independant and since it's
used in ext2fs to represent [acm]time and since those accesses could not have
happened before 1970 since ext2fs didn't exist at the time, it seems perfectly
fine to use unsigned 32bit ints (which get translated to signed 64bit or signed
32bit for VFS interfacing).
Stefan
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