diff --git a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/texttomodelmerger.cpp b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/texttomodelmerger.cpp
index 45c07d20afb..e48ee7e3570 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/texttomodelmerger.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/texttomodelmerger.cpp
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
 #include <QDir>
 #include <QLoggingCategory>
 #include <QRegularExpression>
+#include <QElapsedTimer>
 
 #include <memory>
 
@@ -965,7 +966,7 @@ bool TextToModelMerger::load(const QString &data, DifferenceHandler &differenceH
 
     const bool justSanityCheck = !differenceHandler.isValidator();
 
-    QTime time;
+    QElapsedTimer time;
     if (rewriterBenchmark().isInfoEnabled())
         time.start();
 
diff --git a/src/tools/qtcdebugger/main.cpp b/src/tools/qtcdebugger/main.cpp
index 6beda7c1ecb..aa14dfe324c 100644
--- a/src/tools/qtcdebugger/main.cpp
+++ b/src/tools/qtcdebugger/main.cpp
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include <QTextStream>
 #include <QFileInfo>
 #include <QByteArray>
+#include <QElapsedTimer>
 #include <QSysInfo>
 #include <QString>
 #include <QDir>
@@ -322,7 +323,7 @@ bool startCreatorAsDebugger(bool asClient, QString *errorMessage)
         qDebug() << binary << args;
     QProcess p;
     p.setWorkingDirectory(dir);
-    QTime executionTime;
+    QElapsedTimer executionTime;
     executionTime.start();
     p.start(binary, args, QIODevice::NotOpen);
     if (!p.waitForStarted()) {
diff --git a/tests/unit/unittest/processevents-utilities.cpp b/tests/unit/unittest/processevents-utilities.cpp
index 32162edecd1..6779fb7b067 100644
--- a/tests/unit/unittest/processevents-utilities.cpp
+++ b/tests/unit/unittest/processevents-utilities.cpp
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
 #include "processevents-utilities.h"
 
 #include <QCoreApplication>
+#include <QElapsedTimer>
 #include <QThread>
-#include <QTime>
 
 #include <QDebug>
 
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ bool processEventsUntilTrue(std::function<bool ()> condition, int timeOutInMs)
     if (condition())
         return true;
 
-    QTime time;
+    QElapsedTimer time;
     time.start();
 
     forever {