The Polish lustration (how cool, this arbitrary use of Latin), aims to find the secret informants from communist times, to weed them out from any kind of civil services.

Now, even if I were to have tried hard, and have spied everyone around, by definition I couldn’t have been an informant - I was born in 1973, and the bill states that only people born before 1972 are suspect. That’s at least what I thought before. Well, today I came to realize that the cutoff date it not the 1st of January 1972. I checked the original act - it is the 10th of May. What a relief! Had my wife been born a couple of days earlier, I would have had to become vigilant ever after! No, but wait, there’s an amendment in the making, which would, among others, change the cutoff date to 1st of August. What will I do, if the amended act becomes a law? These 82 days do make a huge difference for me. Without the temporal limit, it could be that my now-not-suspect wife just might have been denouncing the dissidents, in exchange for lollipops and sweets. She might have been a naughty communist spy of a child, one can never rule out such a possibility… How cool, this arbitrary use of calendar.