• Alaknár
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    113 days ago

    How the heck do you find north based on your watch?

    Like this

    I live in north Manchester so I know Manchester is south

    What if you go on a trip to Thailand and get turned around in the jungle?

    Or I can look at the sun if not midday and figure it out

    That gives you a very approximate direction.

    • @bstix@feddit.dk
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      213 days ago

      It’s the same method.

      The distance between the sun and 12 is divided by two, because the clock face only shows half the day.

      If we had a clock with 24 hours in the circle and used the same method, it’d be the same as pointing at the sun and saying: South is where the sun will be at noon.

      • Alaknár
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        113 days ago

        You don’t need to stare directly into the ball of fire to determine where the Sun is. All you need is the flashes of light through the leaves - and you CAN see that in the jungle.