the ‘minutes to midnight’ quarter clock face that shows the current perceived threat level of how close we are to destroying the world with the technologies we’ve created. That clock is kind ...

it has moved 5 minutes. There are 12 numbers around the clock face, and each interval is 5 minutes… 12 × 5 = 60 minutes in an hour. Let's use this knowledge to tell the time on the clocks below.

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history.

1 hour is made up of 60 minutes, and this is shown with one full turn of the minute hand around the clock's face, whilst the hour hand moves on just one more number. Clock: Alright, let’s go!