Aha-got it!

sudo rm -rf ~/.nvm sudo rm /usr/local/bin/node sudo rm /usr/local/bin/nvm pm2 stop mm (not sure if I missed this earlier) bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)"

This installed fine, but gave me an error of an out-of-date npm version, so I ran:

sudo npm i -g npm

Then moved all my old modules and config file over to the new install and checked my node/npm versions:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirrorBackup/modules $ node -v v9.11.2 pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirrorBackup/modules $ npm -v 6.5.0

So they’re not as up-to-date as my previous ones, but MagicMirror is working fine!

Thanks everyone for the input, turns out just a bit of manual removal and persistence sorted me out!

@postremalone - Could you provide some more information? Tell us what command you entered and specifically what messages you received. Remember to use the markup tags.

anyone?? Please reply.

@postremalone Fastest way to show MM is to have the RPi already running, then simply turn on the the display. Check out this thread here for use with a PIR or other sensor/button. Apparently, because it already draws such little power, there is no desire to implement suspend on RPi.

As for speeding up boot, as @lavolp3 said, the issue is not the logo, but booting the OS. You can strip down the Raspbian boot for speed, but it will never be instantaneous (sub 1 sec). You can apparently get down to 10 seconds with a stripped down distro and Class 10 SD card.

@postremalone no… the timezone is based ont he javascript moment…

see here, you can use any/all of each line… yours I think could be
“Indian/Maldives|MMT”,
https://github.com/moment/moment-timezone/blob/develop/data/packed/latest.json

@postremalone Sir you can follow @sdetweil method
Thanks again