Error ASP.NET Core EF6 and SQL Server 2005: The version of SQL Server in use does not support datatype 'datetime2'

I receive the following exception when attempting to update a database record even though I was passing in the correct datetime values to the controller.

System.ArgumentException: The version of SQL Server in use does not support datatype 'datetime2'

Other stackoverflow topics suggest either the datetime has not been set or to edit the edmx file, which in this case, doesn't exist. I have tested the application with a localdb context in Visual Studio 2015 but I only receive an error when trying to connect to the SQL Server 2005 DbContext.

Is this exception due to an incompatibility with SQL Server 2005 or is there a workaround which I'm missing?