diff --git a/src/types/timezone.jl b/src/types/timezone.jl
index ce2655ada..b6f9cba87 100644
--- a/src/types/timezone.jl
+++ b/src/types/timezone.jl
@@ -74,12 +74,6 @@ function TimeZone(str::AbstractString, mask::Class=Class(:DEFAULT))
     tz, class = get(_TZ_CACHE, str) do
         if occursin(FIXED_TIME_ZONE_REGEX, str)
             FixedTimeZone(str), Class(:FIXED)
-        elseif !isdir(_COMPILED_DIR[]) || isempty(readdir(_COMPILED_DIR[]))
-            # Note: Julia 1.0 supresses the build logs which can hide issues in time zone
-            # compliation which result in no tzdata time zones being available.
-            throw(ArgumentError(
-                "Unable to find time zone \"$str\". Try running `TimeZones.build()`."
-            ))
         else
             throw(ArgumentError("Unknown time zone \"$str\""))
         end