d. Using a watch to find north: 1.

d. Using a watch to find north: 1. General. The sun always appears to be south of the north temperate zone and north of the south temperate zone. A timepiece can be used to determine the direction of true north utilizing this fact, while compensating for the eastward to westward movement of the sun. 2. North temperate zone. a. Hold timepiece so that hour hand points at sun. b. Mentally draw an angle with its vertex at the center of the timepiece, one line passing through the number 12 and the other line along the hour hand. c. Cut this angle in half and note its imaginary projections on the ground. d. This imaginary line, bisecting the angle mentally drawn, points south, its reverse direction is north.