Just to give this issue a bit of a kick in the pants, here is a prototype as suggested by @agijsberts

from matplotlib import units, dates
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
from numpy import datetime64, timedelta64, arange, ndarray, dtype
from numpy.random import rand
import datetime

resolution_scale = {
    dtype('datetime64[ns]'): 1e-9,
    dtype('datetime64[us]'): 1e-6,
    dtype('datetime64[ms]'): 1e-3,
    dtype('datetime64[s]'): 1,
    dtype('datetime64[m]'): 60,
    dtype('datetime64[h]'): 60 * 60,
    dtype('datetime64[D]'): 24 * 60 * 60,
}

class Datetime64Converter(dates.DateConverter):
    @staticmethod
    def convert(values, unit, axis):
        if isinstance(values, ndarray) and issubclass(values.dtype.type, datetime64):
            return dates.epoch2num(values.view('i8') * resolution_scale[values.dtype])
        elif isinstance(values, datetime.date):
            return dates.date2num(values)
        else:
            return values

units.registry[datetime64] = Datetime64Converter

a = arange('2014-01-01', '2014-01-07', timedelta64(1, 'D'), dtype='datetime64[D]')
b = rand(len(a))
for i, r in enumerate(('ns', 'us', 'ms', 's', 'm', 'h', 'D')):
    plt.plot(a.astype('datetime64[{0}]'.format(r)), b + i, label=r)
plt.legend()
plt.show()

It has limitations, but it would be a step up from where we are now.

Uh oh!

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