In Thunderbird/Lightning and Google Calendar they show as “all day” for me. What application are you using, and would you be willing to do a bit of testing if I sent you some sample files to see how different variations display for you?

To say that because some people in this country are of a particular faith and sometimes they have marriage ceremonies which are carried out by the CofE that this gives the Church any say at all in how everybody else (the majority) are governed is clearly undemocratic. The real fear within the Church(es – both Catholic and Anglican and probably others) I believe, is the split in opinion amongst their own ministers and believers. There are those, who if not barred by law, will be quite happy to carry out the ceremony and this should be entirely a matter for them to deal with and not a reason for a law imposed on everybody.

My own view on marriage: I don’t get it and never really have. But lots of people do it so it must mean something to them and if they want to then the usual arguments of equality on the grounds of race, sexuality, ability etc. must apply.

SELECT * FROM “countries” WHERE “name”->’en’ LIKE ‘Ger%’

It does mean the function is being run on every column in the table, so there are performance considerations, but that’s true of most of the schemas I’ve seen for translating this kind of data (One Big Table, tables where you previously had columns, etc, all lead to much more complex query plans).

I haven’t looked into it in detail, but I think you could build an index on (“name”->’en’) if you knew that you were going to query it in a way that would hit the index. Although if you were doing pattern matching, that might not help anyway…

Meanwhile, I must get round to updating the version online with the fixes that have been made to get it working in production here.

The calendar currently includes all the Bank Holidays up to the end of 2012; it looks like the government site lists the “expected” dates up to 2015 now, though, so I will update with those shortly. :)