Hi there.
I'm still having many problems with this approach.
My span can vary berween day, week , month etc...
When the span is day it look great, but on other variants, setting the step to be the XWidth of the bar to be the span (week = 7 days, month = 30 days) it looks wrong, the bars and the step don't match, the labels appear not on the ticks as it should and it just not working.
I am still not sure why doing what i did with the string labels (persuming i make sure all the dates are consecutive and if there is a gap i make sure to fill it with a zero value point)