Days on Earth will last 25 hours in the distant future

Clocks will become outdated and humans will spend an extra hour in bed - or at work - according to researchers at Durham University and the UK’s Nautical Almanac Office.

However, scientists advised the planet’s citizens not to throw out the digital alarm clock just yet, as the length of the day will not extend to 25 hours for around another 200 million years.

Because the day is lengthening only by two milliseconds every 100 years, even getting an extra minute in the day will take 6.7 million years.