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Wired.com posted a simple method by which we can find the south direction using nothing but an analog watch and the sun. This is a handy method in case one is lost and disoriented.

This is how it is done.

1. Hold a watch on your hand and point the 12 o’clock towards left direction.

2. Move your arm so the hour hand points at the sun.

3. The mid point between the hour hand and the 12 is the south direction.



This method however will not work in the southern hemisphere, for which you have to change slightly the above method.

In the southern hemisphere do the following:

You would point 12 o'clock at the sun but still split the difference between 12 and the hour hand for north.

If you are in a region where daylight saving time is used, then you should subtract one hour from the hour hand.

Let me know if you have tried this method before.

Also, Guj* our fellow DJ writer wrote another article about finding directions, which uses a different method than the above.