Comment 10 for bug 1298978

Pat's suggested fix seems to work. The fix is now testable from https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/landing-008

In other words, to test:
adb shell
apt-add-repository ppa:ci-train-ppa-service/landing-008
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Qt Declarative's own test suite passed fine. I'll run our autopilot suites also to check if there are any regressions. If there are none I'll submit the fix to upstream and publish the fix after it has seen some sort of approval.

Note that the shorts app caches the entries, so the time will only be displayed for new ones or if the database is removed. On desktop one can do rm -rf .local/share/com.ubuntu.shorts/ for simple with/without testing.