I've verified this for Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) and it is good.
bdmurray@clean-disco-amd64:~$ systemctl list-timers motd* --all
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
Wed 2019-07-17 03:06:29 PDT 11h left Tue 2019-07-16 15:43:04 PDT 2min 44s ago motd-news.timer motd-news.service
1 timers listed.
bdmurray@clean-disco-amd64:~$ systemctl list-timers motd* --all
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
Wed 2019-07-17 16:23:31 PDT 8h left Wed 2019-07-17 03:07:01 PDT 4h 36min ago motd-news.timer motd-news.service
I've verified this for Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) and it is good.
bdmurray@ clean-disco- amd64:~ $ systemctl list-timers motd* --all
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
Wed 2019-07-17 03:06:29 PDT 11h left Tue 2019-07-16 15:43:04 PDT 2min 44s ago motd-news.timer motd-news.service
1 timers listed. clean-disco- amd64:~ $ systemctl list-timers motd* --all
bdmurray@
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
Wed 2019-07-17 16:23:31 PDT 8h left Wed 2019-07-17 03:07:01 PDT 4h 36min ago motd-news.timer motd-news.service
1 timers listed. clean-disco- amd64:~ $ ls -lh /var/cache/ motd-news motd-news clean-disco- amd64:~ $ apt-cache policy base-files
bdmurray@
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169 Jul 17 03:07 /var/cache/
bdmurray@
base-files:
Installed: 10.1ubuntu9.1