diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d685d8baa..025fb89e4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
           Hachimura).
 - TW-1534 Urgency coefficient for user project disables 'info' output (thanks to
           Martin).
+- TW-1542 Large numeric UDA values get rendered in scientific notation on export
+          (thanks to Ralph Bean).
 - Fixed assorted color theme problems.
 - Changed assorted reports so they do not use '.age' format for dates that are
   in the future, because those are never shown with this format (thanks to
diff --git a/src/Task.cpp b/src/Task.cpp
index de02116e4..0a58455b7 100644
--- a/src/Task.cpp
+++ b/src/Task.cpp
@@ -2080,9 +2080,6 @@ void Task::modify (modType type, bool text_required /* = false */)
             if (v.type () == Variant::type_string)
               throw format (STRING_UDA_NUMERIC, v.get_string ());
 
-            v.cast (Variant::type_real);
-            v.cast (Variant::type_string);
-
             set (name, v);
             ++modCount;
           }