Gentlemen,
With regards to commuting I suggest that you review the following circular:
http://far117understanding.files.wor...1/ac-117-3.pdf

Look for the section "Commuting Stresses" and make your decisions as to how you should behave.

With regards to The FAA's acclimatization process, this seems particularly flawed.
The FAA uses a series of FDPs, not series of Duty Periods.
So a Flightcrew Member (FCM) could be on a RAP 9 hours, assigned a DHD Duty period for 10 hrs to a different theater, be given 10 hours rest and will be considered acclimated since the FCM did not actually change theaters during a FDP, so no 30 minute penalty will be applied to the FDP. So, in the case provided, the FCM will be dead tired, and actually un-accclimated, yet they will be expected to be able to perform a FDP up to the scheduled FDP limit and then extended possibly as much as 2 hours. Hmm ... yeah, right that's safe.