User:JohnOfStony

Because there is no word meaning "to get used to a different time zone" and with east-west air travel being widespread, I felt there was a need for such a word. I then considered it's close relation "acclimatise" ("acclimatize" US spelling) mening "to get used to a different climate" and came up with "ACHRONOTISE" ("ACHRONOTIZE", US spelling) which derives from the Greek Chronos/Kronos meaning time.

The opposite of achronotise is dechronotise. So east-west travel at high speed, as in aircraft, causes dechronotisation and it may take more than 24 hours to become fully achronotised after such travel.

Examples of the use of these new verbs and their associated words follow:

"I arrived in Califfornia from London last week and it took me two days to get achronotised"

"I find that crossing to a time zone more than 3 hours shifted from my current time zone causes dechronotisation"

"I have heard several suggestions about minimizing achronotisation time"

"It takes me longer to get achronotised when travelling west to east than east to west."

These new (largely passive) verbs, "to be achronotised" and "to be dechronotised", together with their associated words such as "achronotisation" and "dechronotisation" were invented by John Edwin Foggitt of Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom to fill a gap in the English language. Although the copyright is owned by me, the aforementioned John Edwin Foggitt, I hereby grant would-be users full permission to use these words and their derivative words providing any reference to their origins include my name and location and the date of their first appearance in Wikipedia, i.e. 11th Octover 2010. Please note that these words include their USA equivalents where a "z" is used in place of the UK English "s".