@sdetweil got it! thanks guys, I’m slowly building confidence to poke around more and tweak. And annoy my wife by constantly tinkering ;)

So, first off I’m super grateful for all the help this forum has given/taught me. I have a rpi 3b+ running MM with the default modules and Dropbox wallpaper so far. Everything has been sorted with patience and some trial and error until now. My next goal was Auto starting, I read the wiki on GitHub and alas it is autostarts! However over time I noticed the clock is changed to a time that’s earlier than it was set to. And everytime I unplug and replug the rpi it jumps back even more… I have had MM run from a manual npm start for several days without issue, but once I start it via PM2 it looses itself over time/reboot. I’m sure theres an easy solution and I’m just missing it! Any help is appreciated!