Timeline for How can you navigate without a compass or GPS
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| May 3, 2017 at 9:03 | comment | added | Jani Hyytiäinen | North and south will be in opposite directions in northern and southern hemispheres. | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 21:58 | comment | added | Loduwijk | I like this. However, I don't think you need to count the minutes. This is going to be crude enough that the difference in minutes is likely to be less than your margin of error. Much, much less if you're like me. | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 4:02 | history | edited | Charlie Brumbaugh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 30, 2015 at 9:38 | comment | added | Agrajag | This trick is mentioned often, but it's a bit over-complicated for what is really a very simple idea. In the northern hemisphere the sun is east at 6am, south at noon and west at 6pm. You can forget about this technique for getting a very accurate direction anyway; and that idea is sufficent to get a rough idea of direction. For example if it's 3pm, then the sun is (roughly) south-west. This is reversed if you're in the south hemisphere and "it's complicated" if you're between the tropical circles. | |
| Jul 21, 2014 at 15:25 | comment | added | Paul Paulsen | Please note that there are tricky timezones! Daylight saving is not the only trap, some time zones have nothing to do with ideal distribution - e.g. complete China or Greenland are one timezone, resulting in differences up to three hours, which would be 90 degrees... | |
| Mar 10, 2013 at 4:25 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jan 19, 2013 at 2:16 | comment | added | montane | Some type of visual representation would really help explain this. Or a reference. But this is a good tool to know. | |
| Jun 1, 2012 at 9:03 | comment | added | Vorac | Carry a clock or carry immagination ;P I carry an analog clock. I point the hour arrow at the sun and know south is approximately to the middle of that and 12o'clock. There are many factors to consider if one is to estimate the accuracy of this method. | |
| May 17, 2012 at 10:03 | comment | added | Noam Gal | Put the short clock hand ("hours") right where your shadow is pointing. From this, you can imagine where 12 o'clock is. For example, if now it's 16:30 and you put the short hand on your shadow, the 12 o'clock hand would be 135 degrees to your left. That means the north is 67.5 degrees to your left. | |
| Apr 19, 2012 at 2:46 | comment | added | Michael Durrant | don't get it, when I imagine the analog clock, where do the numbers go? | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 12:22 | comment | added | Noam Gal | You don't actually need an analog clock. Just the ability to imagine one on the ground around you, and your shadow as the big hand. Maybe even imagining an analog clock is getting harder these days... | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 10:02 | comment | added | HorusKol | unfortunately - in the age of digital, this won't work too well. | |
| Jan 24, 2012 at 20:20 | history | answered | Noam Gal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |