diff --git a/coding/indexable/time.go b/coding/indexable/time.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 912b6a2ab1..0000000000
--- a/coding/indexable/time.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2013 Prometheus Team
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package indexable
-
-import (
-	"encoding/binary"
-
-	clientmodel "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/model"
-)
-
-// EncodeTimeInto writes the provided time into the specified buffer subject
-// to the LevelDB big endian key sort order requirement.
-func EncodeTimeInto(dst []byte, t clientmodel.Timestamp) {
-	binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(dst, uint64(t.Unix()))
-}
-
-// EncodeTime converts the provided time into a byte buffer subject to the
-// LevelDB big endian key sort order requirement.
-func EncodeTime(t clientmodel.Timestamp) []byte {
-	buffer := make([]byte, 8)
-
-	EncodeTimeInto(buffer, t)
-
-	return buffer
-}
-
-// DecodeTime deserializes a big endian byte array into a Unix time in UTC,
-// omitting granularity precision less than a second.
-func DecodeTime(src []byte) clientmodel.Timestamp {
-	return clientmodel.TimestampFromUnix(int64(binary.BigEndian.Uint64(src)))
-}
diff --git a/coding/indexable/time_test.go b/coding/indexable/time_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 881fe87a3f..0000000000
--- a/coding/indexable/time_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2013 Prometheus Team
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package indexable
-
-import (
-	"math/rand"
-	"testing"
-	"testing/quick"
-
-	clientmodel "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/model"
-)
-
-func TestTimeEndToEnd(t *testing.T) {
-	tester := func(x int) bool {
-		random := rand.New(rand.NewSource(int64(x)))
-		buffer := make([]byte, 8)
-		incoming := clientmodel.TimestampFromUnix(random.Int63())
-
-		EncodeTimeInto(buffer, incoming)
-		outgoing := DecodeTime(buffer)
-
-		return incoming.Equal(outgoing) && incoming.Unix() == outgoing.Unix()
-	}
-
-	if err := quick.Check(tester, nil); err != nil {
-		t.Error(err)
-	}
-}