  There are a number of problematic features within the current treatment of
time in physical theories, including the "timelessness" of the Universe as
encapsulated by the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. This paper considers one
particular investigation into resolving this issue; a conditional probability
interpretation that was first proposed by Page and Wooters. Those authors
addressed the apparent timelessness by subdividing a faux Universe into two
entangled parts, "the clock" and "the remainder of the Universe", and then
synchronizing the effective dynamics of the two subsystems by way of
conditional probabilities. The current treatment focuses on the possibility of
using a (somewhat) realistic clock system; namely, a coherent-state description
of a damped harmonic oscillator. This clock proves to be consistent with the
conditional probability interpretation; in particular, a standard evolution
operator is identified with the position of the clock playing the role of time
for the rest of the Universe. Restrictions on the damping factor are determined
and, perhaps contrary to expectations, the optimal choice of clock is not
necessarily one of minimal damping.
