Useful Useless Fact: Use a Wristwatch as a Compass
Posted in UUF by Dan at 11:59 pm
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Todays Tip: Hold a watch with the 12 o’clock at the leftmost part of your hand. Move your arm so that the hour hand points at the sun. The spot halfway between the hour hand and the 12 is south. [via 08.06 Wired magazine]
As always, you can see all the previous tips and read the disclaimers here.
lol, that’s cool, but my watch is digital :P
This works only in the Northern Hemisphere with watches set to standard time.
Match point!
Also helps to actually wear a watch, which I rarely do. Plus, I would probably have taken off my watch prior to getting into a situation where I might need to do any sort of unplanned land nav. Still, that’s pretty cool.