Comment on AusAlert emergency warning test: What you need to know and how to prepare
Nath@aussie.zone 2 days agoEvery month? I think Isn’t that super annoying?
What if there were a genuine emergency on the first Monday of the month? A lot of people would dismiss the alert assuming it’s routine and not even read it. That’s if they hadn’t outright disabled the alert in the first place because of spam.
runwaylights@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The test is set to a default time, between 12:00 and 12:05. It’s a leftover from the world war, so we have a national air raid alarm that was implemented in 1954 and gets tested every first Monday of the month around 12:00. The NL-alert coincides with that. You get used to it and it’s very weird if you don’t hear the alarm and you realise its the fist Monday of the month