calculating south

[pigface]

A while back I saw someone on TV demonstrating how to calculate where south is by using a watch.

It was something to do with pointing one of the hands at the sun and taking a reading of half between another number.

Does anyone know for sure?

[woofgang]

here you go. Scroll down the page a bit for the method

http://www.travel-island.com/outdoors/how_works_compass_maps.html

[Loosehead]

and if you are in the southern hemisphere you can calculate North using the same method.