diff --git a/grails-datastore-gorm-hibernate/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/HibernateMappingBuilder.groovy b/grails-datastore-gorm-hibernate/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/HibernateMappingBuilder.groovy
index fa5816ad6..e808c3cc3 100644
--- a/grails-datastore-gorm-hibernate/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/HibernateMappingBuilder.groovy
+++ b/grails-datastore-gorm-hibernate/src/main/groovy/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/HibernateMappingBuilder.groovy
@@ -249,6 +249,16 @@ class HibernateMappingBuilder implements MappingConfigurationBuilder<Mapping, Pr
         mapping.autoTimestamp = b
     }
 
+    @CompileStatic
+    void dateCreated(String dateCreated) {
+        mapping.dateCreated  = dateCreated
+    }
+
+    @CompileStatic
+    void lastUpdated(String lastUpdated) {
+        mapping.lastUpdated = lastUpdated
+    }
+
     /**
      * <p>Configures whether to use versioning for optimistic locking
      * <code> { version false }