TEZ-4537: Fix several time comparison issues.

[ayushtkn]

Fix t1 < t2 kind of comparisons

[abstractdog]

https://github.com/apache/tez/pull/300#discussion_r1465747416 numerical overflow: does this exactly mean the possible negative values of the arbitrary origin time?

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[abstractdog]

@ayushtkn : can you please rebase this patch on top of master? LGTM, let's just have a fresh test run