Entity Framework Code First Date field creation

Question

I am using Entity Framework Code First method to create my database table. The following code creates a DATETIME column in the database, but I want to create a

Answer 1

This is just an enhancement for the most up-voted answer by @LadislavMrnka on this question

if you have a lot of Date columns, then you can create custom attribute and then use it when ever you want, this will produce more clean code in the Entity classes

public class DateColumnAttribute : ColumnAttribute
{
    public DateColumnAttribute()
    {
        TypeName = "date";
    }
}

Usage

[DateColumn]
public DateTime DateProperty { get; set; }