title: Mapping of Oracle Date to Java type to return the number of seconds since epoch?
body: <p>I have a table with an oracle date column </p>
  
  <p>when I do a select on sqlplus on the column it gives me the value like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>10-JAN-2007
  </code></pre>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Is this the precision of date in an Oracle column i,e does it not have hour sec, millisec in the date column.</li>
  <li>How can I map this to a java timestamp and get seconds since epoch.</li>
  </ol>