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AusAlert emergency warning test: What you need to know and how to prepare (www.sbs.com.au)
submitted 1 month ago by [M] to c/melbourne@aussie.zone
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[–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

Every month? 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month 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

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