Fix the 3am notification avalanche and the failing morning digest

Three bugs from the first day of real use.

1. Quiet hours were evaluated in UTC. The router is handed a UTC `now` and
   compared its hour against "22:00-07:00" directly, so notifications were
   silenced from 18:00 local -- prime reading time -- and the whole day's budget
   was released at 03:00 local. The reported avalanche landed at 03:39 and 03:55.
   Quiet hours are now converted to the reader's wall clock first.

2. The timezone never resolved anyway. TZ was "America/Louisville", which exists
   on this Arch host but NOT in a Debian container, which ships only the
   canonical "America/Kentucky/Louisville". The container fell back to UTC and
   `date` printed "America" as the zone abbreviation. The zone is now read from
   config rather than the environment, so a bad TZ cannot silently change
   behaviour, and the compose entry uses the canonical name. NOTE: ~20 other
   services in compose.yml carry the same bad string; they were left alone since
   it only affects their log timestamps.

3. Budgets are not a rate. Six notifications fired in a single minute because
   the daily allowance could all be spent in one cycle. Each lane now has a
   minimum gap (interest 75min, importance 30min) and sends at most one per
   cycle, which turns the budget into a rate spread across the day.

Separately, the morning digest had silently fallen back to the templated list.
The real 28-story payload takes 70.3s to generate against a 60s timeout. Raised
to 180s -- and write_prose now LOGS why it failed instead of returning None in
silence, which is what made a one-line timeout cost a debugging session.
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@@ -443,6 +443,11 @@ probes = [
[delivery]
digest_hour = "08:45"
quiet_hours = { start = "22:00", end = "07:00" }
# Read from config, NOT from the TZ environment variable. "America/Louisville"
# resolves on the Arch host but does not exist inside a Debian container, which
# ships only the canonical name below -- so TZ silently fell back to UTC and
# quiet hours ran 18:00-03:00 local.
timezone = "America/Kentucky/Louisville"
# The importance lane MAY override quiet hours. The interest lane never may.
importance_may_wake = true
# No format filter: Connor reads analysis, wire copy, investigations AND opinion,