What is the use of the @Temporal annotation in Hibernate?

Question

The Hibernate Documentation has the information below for the @Temporal annotation:

In plain Java APIs, the temporal precision of time is

Answer 1

If you're looking for short answer:

In the case of using java.util.Date, Java doesn't really know how to directly relate to SQL types. This is when @Temporal comes into play. It's used to specify the desired SQL type.

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