Often you want some kind of way to determine when entities were created or last updated at. This feature covers exactly that need.

It's as simple as adding the @Dates annotation and the 2 timestamp columns (createdAt, updatedAt) to your model. You can optionally specify the field names using the annotation parameters create and update.

@Dates
class User extends Model {
    /* <other fields> */
    @Column
    Timestamp createdAt;
    @Column
    Timestamp updatedAt;
}

Whenever you save the entity, the updatedAt field gets set to the current date and time while createdAt only gets set on the first save.