U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

Wed Oct 4 19:32:13 UTC 2023


> On Oct 4, 2023, at 3:27 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach at netflight.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 12:25 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com <mailto:sean at donelan.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Emergency alerts are built into all android, ios and other mobile phones 
>> sold in almost every country during the last 5 years.  GSM standards are 
>> global.  The U.S. finally changed "presidential alert" to "national alert" 
>> recently. 
> 
> Well, today's alert still showed up as "Presidential Alert", so I guess the US hasn't quite finished changing over yet.  ^_^;
> (Samsung Galaxy phone)

Since only the President or the Director of FEMA can issue it…. It’s not too terrible.
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