diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index fbba333..1106c15 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -15,9 +15,7 @@ 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"
 StaticArrays = "90137ffa-7385-5640-81b9-e52037218182"
 StructArrays = "09ab397b-f2b6-538f-b94a-2f83cf4a842a"
@@ -26,9 +24,7 @@ Unitful = "1986cc42-f94f-5a68-af5c-568840ba703d"
 
 [extensions]
 AxisKeysExt = "AxisKeys"
-DatesExt = "Dates"
 IntervalSetsExt = "IntervalSets"
-LinearAlgebraExt = "LinearAlgebra"
 StaticArraysExt = "StaticArrays"
 StructArraysExt = "StructArrays"
 TestExt = "Test"
diff --git a/src/Accessors.jl b/src/Accessors.jl
index ae21258..fa8207e 100644
--- a/src/Accessors.jl
+++ b/src/Accessors.jl
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ 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")
+include("../ext/LinearAlgebraExt.jl")
 if !isdefined(Base, :get_extension)
-    include("../ext/DatesExt.jl")
-    include("../ext/LinearAlgebraExt.jl")
     include("../ext/TestExt.jl")
 end