I've also verified this for Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) and it too passed.
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ systemctl list-timers motd* --all
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
Wed 2019-07-17 11:04:56 PDT 19h left Tue 2019-07-16 15:46:33 PDT 44s ago motd-news.timer motd-news.service
1 timers listed.
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ systemctl list-timers motd* --all
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
Wed 2019-07-17 23:10:07 PDT 15h left Wed 2019-07-17 06:50:12 PDT 55min ago motd-news.timer motd-news.service
I've also verified this for Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) and it too passed.
bdmurray@ clean-bionic- amd64:~ $ systemctl list-timers motd* --all
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
Wed 2019-07-17 11:04:56 PDT 19h left Tue 2019-07-16 15:46:33 PDT 44s ago motd-news.timer motd-news.service
1 timers listed. clean-bionic- amd64:~ $ systemctl list-timers motd* --all
bdmurray@
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
Wed 2019-07-17 23:10:07 PDT 15h left Wed 2019-07-17 06:50:12 PDT 55min ago motd-news.timer motd-news.service
1 timers listed. clean-bionic- amd64:~ $ ls -lh /var/cache/ motd-news motd-news clean-bionic- amd64:~ $ apt-cache policy base-files
bdmurray@
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169 Jul 17 06:50 /var/cache/
bdmurray@
base-files:
Installed: 10.1ubuntu2.5