Put the application on Central time.

It doesn’t look as if that actually happens, but I’ll have to restart the app to be sure.
Current state of deployment preparation.

Set the DB parameters for production (known to be correct)
Set a _lot_ of parameters in config.deploy.rb for Capistrano.
Twiddle with Capfile (more to come)
Add the mysql (and mysql2?!) gems to the Gemfile. Also the 'thin' web server (needed to get Safari to show non-blank pages).