What makes an almost sixty-six year-old retired guy do everything he possibly can to change the world for the better, one bio-clock at a time?

In the middle of December, 2005, the vivid dynamic picture of an unusual dual-time clock (simultaneously displaying both "conventional time" and "local natural time") came to me suddenly one afternoon. Very odd. First, because I was not thinking about a clock or even time. And, even more so, because I tend to not visualize concepts or even things.

I spent a few days thinking about how this unusual kind of clock would work, e.g., how syncing its changing circle to its conventional hands would look if both the movement of its circle and hands were linked to one's latitude and longitude. But soon after this idea of a "natural time in real-time" clock popped into my head, it slipped from my consciousness because I saw no great value for it. Then about five weeks later, I was lying in a windowless Intensive Care Unit after having had a heart attack and then a quadruple bypass operation. In the ICU, due in part to me not having direct access to the passage of day and night, I began suffering "ICU psychosis". And as I began slipping slipping away from life instead of recovering, I suddenly remembered my "natural time" clock and I wished that it were on the wall so that I could look at it, and by doing so be more wholly at one with the passage of actual day and night. Note: I have since discovered that ICU psychosis is a much too typical and serious problem in Intensive Care Units: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/120898sci-icu-psychosis.html.

Somehow that remembrance restored me. And upon surviving that terrible & terrifying I.C.U. ordeal, I made a sacred promise to bring the Synclecron into reality. And GreenTyme is my way of making a free on the Web customizable version of this dual-time clock available to every person who would like an easy way to be "at one" with the natural passage of day and night. As the Synclecron displays how humans have been knowing and experiencing time since the beginning of our time on earth, I think it is a great way to help patients confined to hospital beds. Plus it obviously benefits folks forced to spend most of their work days and/or nights in environments isolated from the flow and ebb of day and night.

HOWEVER, here is where the Synclecron gets even more important. A few months after I was finally able to make the Synclecron freely available on the Web (that took me three years!), a friend asked me if it might help with Sundown Syndrome, a God Awful affliction when Alzheimer's patients get agitated (often to the point of violence) as day nears night. (Sundown Syndrome is the major cause of family care-givers having to put their loved ones in institutions!) I did not know the answer to my friend's question. So I began Googling "Sundown Syndrome" and discovered a connection between it and impaired biological clocks and poorly regulated circadian rhythms. And since then I have been discovering many other diseases similarly connected with badly informed bio-clocks. As a result, I have come to believe that due to our modern life styles and methods of time-keeping, which are such great obstacles to our biological clocks knowing what they need to know in order to properly regulate our circadian rhythms, millions of us are now likely suffering from what I call "CUBS" ("Chronically Under-informed Bio-clock Syndrome".)

You might think that silly. On the other hand, there is much scientific and historical evidence suggesting that each "advance" in modern living and modern time-keeping may be more and more be hurting us. E.g., Jeremy Rifkin his book "Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History" describes that probability more harshly, whereas Christopher Dickey in his Newsweek International article "Turning To God's Time" says it more gently. Either way, we all know from personal experience how disorienting changing between standard and daylight saving time is. Plus, there is very exciting recent medical research Attention Deficit Disorder and Green Time indicating that hyper activity in children is often dramatically reduced when the children are exposed to natural environments which give them knowledge of the flow and ebb of natural time.