Improve datetime support for hv.Bars

[hoxbro]

Todo:

• Add tests
• [ ] Improve padding Will postpone this for now
• Look at matplotlib backend

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Fixes #6364

import holoviews as hv
import pandas as pd

hv.extension("bokeh")

data = pd.DataFrame(
    {"x": pd.date_range("2017-01-01", "2017-01-03", tz="UTC"), "y": [0, 2, -1]}
)

bars = hv.Bars(data, ["x"], ["y"])
hv.Overlay([bars])

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Fixes #6288

import datetime as dt

import holoviews as hv
import pandas as pd

data = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "x": pd.to_datetime(
            [
                "2017-01-01T00:00:00",
                "2017-01-01T00:00:00",
                "2017-01-01T01:00:00",
                "2017-01-01T01:00:00",
            ]
        ),
        "cat": ["A", "B", "A", "B"],
        "y": [0, 1, 2, 3],
    }
)
hv.Bars(data, ["x", "cat"], ["y"]).opts(stacked=True)

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Old issues which was fixed by the implementation.
Resolves #2156

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