I understand this is likely to be multifaceted and more complicated than it may at first seem since it involves travelling vast distances and any number of things could delay a journey before rail travel and even since it was established. Poor maps, weather being unpredictable or even other people doing what they do.
I'm curious though. Is there any evidence of travellers considering the time zone of their destination when planning their journey in the centuries before rail travel and the creation of time zones as we use them today? There are definitely civilisations large enough that they covered multiple time zones even a thousand years ago or more.
This comes up here a bunch. Time zones are an arbitrary construction tied to railways (which were the first mode of transportation to move people quickly enough from place to place that their arrival times had to be precisely coordinated), but it was understood in classical antiquity that time was different in different parts of the globe. That said, modes of travel simply didn't move fast enough for this to be meaningful until the late 1800s.
More on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3uufv2/when_did_people_understood_the_concept_of_time/