How do you communicate with the rest of the world? Do you often make the mistake of setting a meeting up an hour off, and are you ever an hour off from other people's expectations?
For formal appointments, you use your calendar software and enter your appointments in the local time zone. The software will automatically convert a 3:00 PM pacific-time appointment to your preferred time zone (Mountain Standard Time).
For informal appointments, you get used to "7:00 PM your time, 8:00 PM my time" for the 4 months. In rare cases you may get it backwards and you're off by two hours, but those errors are usually caught quickly.
The only time it's a real problem is when someone on the street asks you the time and you don't realize that you've put them off by an hour until you've walked away.
But your solution only works if you have a flexible schedule. You say, "I don't have to deal with the shock of losing an hour sleep in the spring," but that's only because, presumably, there isn't a manager standing at your desk at 9 a.m. wondering why you are showing up to work an hour later than everyone else all of the sudden. People aren't ruled by Daylight Saving Time, they're ruled by schedules.
The actual number doesn't matter at all -- I go to sleep at 11 p.m. in whatever time zone I'm in because it's about 8 hours before I need to wake up and jump into my schedule. Saying "11 p.m." is really "10 p.m." doesn't change the fact that I'm 8 hours away from waking up.
