Table of contents of the book "One Day Too Many"

• Calendar – an everyday requirement.
  •Factors concerning the structure of a calendar.
  •The smallest unit of the calendar, the day.
  •The week, a period of time invented by man.
  •The moon, the measure for the month.
  •How many days and months does a year have?
• How does one measure a year?
• Origins of our calendar
  •Egyptian calendar
  •Julian calendar
• The beginnings of the Gregorian calendar
  •Determining the start of the year.
• The Easter date as a trigger for the Gregorian reform.
• The reform of the calendar by Pope Gregory XIII.
• Reading matter for the people – the People’s Calendar
• The calendar in other cultures.
  •Sumerian calendar
  • Babylonian calendar
  • Greek calendar
  •Jewish calendar
  • Chinese calendar
  • Indian calendar
  • Indonesian calendar
  • Moslem calendar
  • Kurdish calendar
  •Aztec and Mayan calendar
• A different calendar for each revolution.
  •The French revolution calendar
  • Italian calendar reform
  •Russian calendar reform
• Attempts to reform the calendar in the 20th century.
  •The League of Nations as the first contact for calendar reform.
  •United Nations
• Faults in the current calendar
• Do we need a calendar reform?
• Appendix
  • Technical terms / glossary
  •Catalogues