diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc
index cf7ccca41..3dcf3e9ff 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ GitInfo exportGit(ref<Store> store, const std::string & uri,
            git fetch to update the local ref to the remote ref. */
         struct stat st;
         doFetch = stat(localRefFile.c_str(), &st) != 0 ||
-            st.st_mtime + settings.tarballTtl <= now;
+            (uint64_t) st.st_mtime + settings.tarballTtl <= (uint64_t) now;
     }
     if (doFetch)
     {
diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops/fetchMercurial.cc b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchMercurial.cc
index d576138f5..a907d0e1c 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops/fetchMercurial.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchMercurial.cc
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ HgInfo exportMercurial(ref<Store> store, const std::string & uri,
     time_t now = time(0);
     struct stat st;
     if (stat(stampFile.c_str(), &st) != 0 ||
-        st.st_mtime + settings.tarballTtl <= now)
+        (uint64_t) st.st_mtime + settings.tarballTtl <= (uint64_t) now)
     {
         /* Except that if this is a commit hash that we already have,
            we don't have to pull again. */
@@ -96,17 +96,14 @@ HgInfo exportMercurial(ref<Store> store, const std::string & uri,
                 try {
                     runProgram("hg", true, { "pull", "-R", cacheDir, "--", uri });
                 }
-                catch (ExecError & e){
+                catch (ExecError & e) {
                     string transJournal = cacheDir + "/.hg/store/journal";
                     /* hg throws "abandoned transaction" error only if this file exists */
-                    if (pathExists(transJournal))
-                    {
+                    if (pathExists(transJournal)) {
                         runProgram("hg", true, { "recover", "-R", cacheDir });
                         runProgram("hg", true, { "pull", "-R", cacheDir, "--", uri });
-                    }
-                    else 
-                    {
-                        throw ExecError(e.status, fmt("program hg '%1%' ", statusToString(e.status)));
+                    } else {
+                        throw ExecError(e.status, fmt("'hg pull' %s", statusToString(e.status)));
                     }
                 }
             } else {
diff --git a/src/libstore/download.cc b/src/libstore/download.cc
index 892c1b21d..6ce9525c3 100644
--- a/src/libstore/download.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/download.cc
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ CachedDownloadResult Downloader::downloadCached(
             auto ss = tokenizeString<vector<string>>(readFile(dataFile), "\n");
             if (ss.size() >= 3 && ss[0] == url) {
                 time_t lastChecked;
-                if (string2Int(ss[2], lastChecked) && lastChecked + request.ttl >= time(0)) {
+                if (string2Int(ss[2], lastChecked) && (uint64_t) lastChecked + request.ttl >= (uint64_t) time(0)) {
                     skip = true;
                     result.effectiveUri = request.uri;
                     result.etag = ss[1];