diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index fbba333..1fc0f1e 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "Accessors"
 uuid = "7d9f7c33-5ae7-4f3b-8dc6-eff91059b697"
 authors = ["Takafumi Arakaki <aka.tkf@gmail.com>", "Jan Weidner <jw3126@gmail.com> and contributors"]
-version = "0.1.40"
+version = "0.1.41"
 
 [deps]
 CompositionsBase = "a33af91c-f02d-484b-be07-31d278c5ca2b"
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 
 [weakdeps]
 AxisKeys = "94b1ba4f-4ee9-5380-92f1-94cde586c3c5"
-Dates = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
 IntervalSets = "8197267c-284f-5f27-9208-e0e47529a953"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 Requires = "ae029012-a4dd-5104-9daa-d747884805df"
@@ -26,7 +25,6 @@ Unitful = "1986cc42-f94f-5a68-af5c-568840ba703d"
 
 [extensions]
 AxisKeysExt = "AxisKeys"
-DatesExt = "Dates"
 IntervalSetsExt = "IntervalSets"
 LinearAlgebraExt = "LinearAlgebra"
 StaticArraysExt = "StaticArrays"
diff --git a/src/Accessors.jl b/src/Accessors.jl
index ae21258..53019aa 100644
--- a/src/Accessors.jl
+++ b/src/Accessors.jl
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ include("sugar.jl")
 include("functionlenses.jl")
 include("testing.jl")
 
+# always include for now; see https://github.com/JuliaObjects/Accessors.jl/issues/192
+include("../ext/DatesExt.jl")
 if !isdefined(Base, :get_extension)
-    include("../ext/DatesExt.jl")
     include("../ext/LinearAlgebraExt.jl")
     include("../ext/TestExt.jl")
 end