diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 78f56113..f0ab1c47 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 * Update Beautiful Soup 4.12.2 (30c58a1) to 4.12.3 (7fb5175)
 * Update CacheControl 0.13.1 (783a338) to 0.14.0 (e2be0c2)
 * Update certifi 2024.02.02 to 2024.06.02
+* Update dateutil 2.8.2 (296d419) to 2.9.0.post0 (0353b78)
 * Update feedparser 6.0.10 (9865dec) to 6.0.11 (efcb89b)
 * Update filelock 3.12.4 (c1163ae) to 3.14.0 (8556141)
 * Update idna library 3.4 (cab054c) to 3.7 (1d365e1)
diff --git a/lib/dateutil/zoneinfo/__init__.py b/lib/dateutil/zoneinfo/__init__.py
index 5628bfc3..27cc9df4 100644
--- a/lib/dateutil/zoneinfo/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/dateutil/zoneinfo/__init__.py
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ from io import BytesIO
 
 from dateutil.tz import tzfile as _tzfile
 
-# noinspection PyPep8Naming
-import encodingKludge as ek
 import sickgear
 
 __all__ = ["get_zonefile_instance", "gettz", "gettz_db_metadata"]
@@ -27,10 +25,10 @@ class tzfile(_tzfile):
 def getzoneinfofile_stream():
     try:
         # return BytesIO(get_data(__name__, ZONEFILENAME))
-        zonefile = ek.ek(os.path.join, sickgear.ZONEINFO_DIR, ZONEFILENAME)
-        if not ek.ek(os.path.isfile, zonefile):
+        zonefile = os.path.join(sickgear.ZONEINFO_DIR, ZONEFILENAME)
+        if not os.path.isfile(zonefile):
             warnings.warn('Falling back to included zoneinfo file')
-            zonefile = ek.ek(os.path.join, ek.ek(os.path.dirname, __file__), ZONEFILENAME)
+            zonefile = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ZONEFILENAME)
         with open(zonefile, 'rb') as f:
             return BytesIO(f.read())
     except IOError as e:  # TODO  switch to FileNotFoundError?