So, after talking with Saviq, it's a very old bug that was always present. They have a branch proposed to fix it but never decided on the correct resolution of this.
So, targetting Unity8 and attaching the branch to that bug. (and removing both version and regression tags) ** Tags removed: r27 regression ** Project changed: indicator-messages => unity8 ** Package changed: indicator-messages (Ubuntu) => unity8 (Ubuntu) ** Branch linked: lp:~nick-dedekind/unity8/StrFTimeFormatter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Unity API bugs, which is subscribed to Messaging Menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253810 Title: Messages in Incoming not always display the correct date and content Status in The Unity 8 shell: New Status in “unity8” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Sometimes SMSes are displayed with Dec 31 as a date and the content is not displayed. This happens every once in a while, in general the notifications are displayed correctly, but as I exchanged a lot of SMSes with different numbers, this problem happened a few times. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity8/+bug/1253810/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-api-bugs Post to : unity-api-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-api-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp