Dave Liquorice wrote:

No need for a compass, which gives you magnetic north not true north
anyway, just use the sun at midday (for south) or the sun at anytime
and point the hour hand of a proper watch at it the 12 then points
South.

I think for this to work (apart from the other comments about the
equation of time) you *bisect* the angle between the sun and the hour
hand to give south? In the northern hemisphere, of course.
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