Previously scientists had assumed we were 90 seconds from total annihilation, but instead we have an extra hour in bed. Said one boffin: 'I'd kissed goodbye to my loved ones and sold my worldly posessions but now I get a lie in.
'Further examination of the clock shows someone had also confused AM for PM, so everything is actually hunky dory. By contrast, our oven clock has not been reset for years and is on the verge of nuclear armageddon.'
Meanwhile another group of scientists using a different metric says the Doomsday Wheelie Bin should have been put out last Thursday.