Hey, Stefano!
The level of being pedantic is absolutely acceptable.
I don't question any of your arguments. They are all perfectly valid.
Except that I'd rather say it is ~29 seconds if measuring against 1970.
Leap seconds were introduced in 1972 and there were
a total of 27 seconds since then,
Lev, excuse me if I go in super pedantic mode, but your answer and the current
text of the article fail to grasp an important point.
1) The proleptic Gregorian calendar is about leap year rules. It tracks days
without making any assumption on the length of days. If we agree on using this
calend