diff --git a/tests/posix/common/src/clock.c b/tests/posix/common/src/clock.c
index 4edee7a4200..ee793ffc632 100644
--- a/tests/posix/common/src/clock.c
+++ b/tests/posix/common/src/clock.c
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ void test_posix_realtime(void)
 
 	/* Minimal sleep to align us to the next tick interval. This
 	 * helps with a case that 2 consecutive calls to clock_gettime()
-	 * below return different values. Note that it's still a workaround,
-	 * which may break, in which case follow the suggestion in the
+	 * below return different values. Note that the tick alignment
+	 * approach may break, in which case follow the suggestion in the
 	 * comment above.
 	 */
 	k_usleep(1);