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Did merchants and other travelers ever document “jet-lag” or time change prior to planes and trains?

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Hi! Jetlag (and related topic "timezones") have been a fairly popular subject around here. Check out some previous posts for some references from the 1800s, and an overview of the development of time zones

Jetlag - what it is

Did ancient travellers ever develop "jet lag" while traveling and did they ever complain? - /u/queenofscotland provides a quick definition
Did Christopher Columbus get "jet lag" ? - /u/Superplaner illustrates using Columbus as an example

Jetlag - examples

Was there ever jetlag/people having problems adjusting to new time zones before the days of airplanes? - /u/AlfredoEinsteino cites Mark Twain's 1867 book The Innocents Abroad
How and when did people first realize that different parts of the globe experience day/night at different times? - /u/KNHaw cites Jules Verne's 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days
Did transatlantic steamship travelers in days of yore get "ship-lag"? - /u/CptBigglesworth cites Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours from 1920 as the earliest reference to jetlag

Time zones:

When did people understood the concept of time zones (that when it's morning in america it's night in Europe)? - /u/jschooltiger kicks things off with Eratosthenes of Cyrene and Hipparchus of Nicaea.
Additional follow-up comments in When first coming to the New World did people have solid grasp of timezones? Or did the long sea voyage distort their sense of time enough that they didn't notice?, also featuring /u/restricteddata, and more in When did the average person first become aware that it could be a different time of day in different parts of the world?
Did the early Europeans (flat-world era) have any inkling of times zones. If so how did they explain these things... - /u/Crevecoeur cites Dante's Divine Comedy from 1321
What's the first documented instance of travelers adjusting their routine/clocks to fit the local time? - /u/eighthgear talks about Greenwich Mean Time, est 1675
At what point in time was humanity aware that there were different time zones in the world? - /u/mormengil provides an broad overview