diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index f18d01b..7bd8955 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Imports:
     ggplot2,
     jsonlite,
     lifecycle,
+    lubridate,
     readr,
     rlang,
     tidyr
diff --git a/R/timestamps_to_datetime.R b/R/timestamps_to_datetime.R
index 0bdb38b..c63cdb6 100644
--- a/R/timestamps_to_datetime.R
+++ b/R/timestamps_to_datetime.R
@@ -83,13 +83,6 @@ timestamps_to_datetime <- function(x, tz_offset = NULL, force_tz = NULL) {
   out <- as.POSIXct(x, origin = "1970-01-01", tz = "UTC")
 
   if (!is.null(force_tz)) {
-    if (!requireNamespace("lubridate", quietly = TRUE)) { #nocov start
-      cli_abort(c(
-        paste0("Package `lubridate` is needed for this function to work."),
-        i = paste0("Please install it using `install.packages(\"lubridate\")`"))
-      )
-    } #nocov end
-
     out <- lubridate::force_tz(out, tzone = force_tz)
   }
   out