diff --git a/gramps/gen/utils/cast.py b/gramps/gen/utils/cast.py
index 799db27af..91ea58c2b 100644
--- a/gramps/gen/utils/cast.py
+++ b/gramps/gen/utils/cast.py
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ LOG = logging.getLogger(".")
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 from ..const import GRAMPS_LOCALE as glocale
 _ = glocale.translation.gettext
-from ..datehandler import codeset
 from ..constfunc import conv_to_unicode, conv_to_unicode_direct, UNITYPE, STRTYPE
 
 #strings in database are utf-8