[Cob] find south

[Amanda Peck]

I've never been quite sure where the "standard clock noon corresponds to 
solar noon" longitude line is in the time zone but within a time zone "sun 
at highest point" will vary by an hour, from one side of the zone to the 
other.

So the picky and anal-retentive are going to use a compass corrected for 
magnetic north "errors."  I'm glad I live in an area where the correction is 
fairly small--under two degrees right now, but those things are changing 
pretty rapidly--in 1997 it was 0 degrees, 0 minutes.

But, to look at the angles, and for most other practical purposes, a stick 
in the ground will work just fine.  In fact it might work even better than 
the high-tech ways because it will force us to look at what the sun is doing 
on our property.
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otherfish added to his original post:

that's noon STANDARD TIME
so during daylight savins time  ( which is now)
unless I've got it backwards,
use 1 PM daylight savings time to find true south

otherfish