Overhaul of Time.now stuff because Time.now is unaware of time zones. Need to use Time.zone.now (Time.now.utc works fine when dealing with the database, since it is *always* in UTC)

app/models/user.rb

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ class User < ActiveRecord::Base
            :conditions => [ 'state = ?', 'deferred' ],
            :order => 'show_from ASC, todos.created_at DESC' do
               def find_and_activate_ready
-                find(:all, :conditions => ['show_from <= ?', Time.now ]).collect { |t| t.activate! }
+                find(:all, :conditions => ['show_from <= ?', Time.zone.now ]).collect { |t| t.activate! }
               end
            end
   has_many :completed_todos,