Smart Playlists w/"Date modified" not syncing to iPhone/iPad

I'm posting this to the iTunes forum, because after a few months there's been no answer in the iPhone forum. User "kylerrs" found this first:
kylerrs wrote:
Okay, so I normally have a custom made smart playlist which I name "Recently Modified" so I can see the list of songs which I have recently updated in quality or changed the artwork etc., but since updating to iOS5, this playlist still works fine on iTunes but appears blank on my iPhone 4 while all other playlists work fine. Any reason why this might be?
I have the exact same problem. After using a smart playlist based on "Date modified" — like kylerrs — for years, it stopped working. Very frustrating. The playlist works fine in iTunes, but the corresponding playlist on my iPhone and my iPad is always empty.
The sad thing is, this feels like Windows — something mysteriously stops working, you can't figure it out, and you give up — figuring, "Oh well, I just can't do that anymore..."
The original thread, with screenshots, is here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18678228#18678228

I revive this old thread, because I had the very same problem.   After searching for other reports of problems with playlists, I tested a trick that worked for another problem.  And it worked!
Simply add a second rule to the smart playlist, one that has no effect on the results if you set to "match all": -- Playlist is 'Music' --
Sync your playlist again on the iPhone, and magically the contents looks now the same than in iTunes.

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