laravel/laravel — pull request #214 by akuzemchak (2011-12-18 21:21:34+00:00)
Title: Allow timestamp method to be extended

As a developer, I would like to have the ability to customize the column names and types for my Eloquent tables. By changing the timestamp method to protected, this can easily be customized on a per-model basis, or by extending the overall Eloquent\Model class.