diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index 055ca838f..9f79e0ba4 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ from ..utils import (
     sanitized_Request,
     smuggle_url,
     unescapeHTML,
-    unified_strdate,
     unified_timestamp,
     unsmuggle_url,
     UnsupportedError,