diff --git a/applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml b/applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml
index 95bb07145..6fa8e39ab 100644
--- a/applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml
+++ b/applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml
@@ -478,11 +478,7 @@ Item {
     // and Short does not provide seconds. So if seconds are enabled, we need to add it here.
     //
     // What happens here is that it looks for the delimiter between "h" and "m", takes it
-    // and appends it after "mm" and then appends "ss" for the seconds. Also it checks
-    // if the format string already does not contain the seconds part.
-    //
-    // It can happen that Qt uses the 'C' locale (it's a fallback) and that locale
-    // has always ":ss" part in ShortFormat, so we need to remove it.
+    // and appends it after "mm" and then appends "ss" for the seconds.
     function timeFormatCorrection(timeFormatString) {
         var regexp = /(hh*)(.+)(mm)/i
         var match = regexp.exec(timeFormatString);
@@ -498,7 +494,7 @@ Item {
         // when uppercase H is used for hours, needs to be h or hh, so toLowerCase()
         var result = hours.toLowerCase() + delimiter + minutes;
 
-        if (main.showSeconds && timeFormatString.indexOf('s') == -1) {
+        if (main.showSeconds) {
             result += delimiter + seconds;
         }