diff --git a/dialect/db/common/src/main/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/dialect/db/common/JdbcTypeMapper.java b/dialect/db/common/src/main/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/dialect/db/common/JdbcTypeMapper.java
index 48bc3e0..2552bfa 100644
--- a/dialect/db/common/src/main/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/dialect/db/common/JdbcTypeMapper.java
+++ b/dialect/db/common/src/main/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/dialect/db/common/JdbcTypeMapper.java
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ final class JdbcTypeMapper {
         m.put(Types.DOUBLE, BestFitColumnType.DOUBLE);
         m.put(Types.FLOAT, BestFitColumnType.DOUBLE);
         m.put(Types.BIGINT, BestFitColumnType.DOUBLE);
+        // temporal columns are read with their own getter, not getObject: the class getObject returns is the driver's
+        // choice. Oracle reports its DATE as TIMESTAMP (it carries a time of day) and keeps it so: read as a date it
+        // would lose the time, and its members and segment predicates would miss the rows
+        m.put(Types.DATE, BestFitColumnType.DATE);
+        m.put(Types.TIMESTAMP, BestFitColumnType.TIMESTAMP);
         DEFAULT_TYPE_MAP = Collections.unmodifiableMap(m);
     }
 
diff --git a/dialect/db/common/src/test/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/dialect/db/common/JdbcDialectTypeMapTest.java b/dialect/db/common/src/test/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/dialect/db/common/JdbcDialectTypeMapTest.java
index 77e534e..6f17f28 100644
--- a/dialect/db/common/src/test/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/dialect/db/common/JdbcDialectTypeMapTest.java
+++ b/dialect/db/common/src/test/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/dialect/db/common/JdbcDialectTypeMapTest.java
@@ -39,6 +39,16 @@ void testNumericPrecisionFiveScaleZeroMapsToInt() throws SQLException {
         assertEquals(BestFitColumnType.INT, dialect.getType(rs, 0));
     }
 
+    /** A date and a timestamp are read with their getters; getObject returns whatever class the driver picks. */
+    @Test
+    void temporalColumnsAreReadAsDateAndTimestamp() throws SQLException {
+        ResultSetMetaData rs = mock(ResultSetMetaData.class);
+        when(rs.getColumnType(1)).thenReturn(Types.DATE);
+        when(rs.getColumnType(2)).thenReturn(Types.TIMESTAMP);
+        assertEquals(BestFitColumnType.DATE, dialect.getType(rs, 0));
+        assertEquals(BestFitColumnType.TIMESTAMP, dialect.getType(rs, 1));
+    }
+
     @Test
     void testDecimalPrecisionFiveScaleZeroMapsToInt() throws SQLException {
         ResultSetMetaData rs = mock(ResultSetMetaData.class);