diff --git a/lib/ftp.c b/lib/ftp.c
index c0a18ca1c724ce9974381b8e4b73bf6398aba5c5..edd63147e01b20c427cd04d148389b6d9a95cfa7 100644
--- a/lib/ftp.c
+++ b/lib/ftp.c
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ static CURLcode AllowServerConnect(struct connectdata *conn)
   }
 
   /* we give the server 60 seconds to connect to us, or a custom timeout */
-  dt.tv_sec = timeout?timeout:60;
+  dt.tv_sec = (int)(timeout?timeout:60);
   dt.tv_usec = 0;
 
   switch (select(sock+1, &rdset, NULL, NULL, &dt)) {
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_GetFTPResponse(ssize_t *nreadp, /* return number of bytes read */
   bool keepon=TRUE;
   ssize_t gotbytes;
   char *ptr;
-  int timeout;              /* timeout in seconds */
+  long timeout;              /* timeout in seconds */
   struct timeval interval;
   fd_set rkeepfd;
   fd_set readfd;