What if you’re working with a non-Laravel database and your timestamp columns are named differently than default created_at and updated_at? Maybe, you have create_time and update_time. Luckily, you can specify them in the Model, too:
class Role extends Model{ const CREATED_AT = 'create_time'; const UPDATED_AT = 'update_time';}
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