[BUG] Failure to plot TimeTypes as series

[omus]

Details

Plotting time types as a series results a failure:

julia> using Plots, Dates

julia> gr()
Plots.GRBackend()

julia> plot([1, 2], [1, 1])

julia> plot([[1, 2]], [[1, 1]])

julia> plot([DateTime(2001), DateTime(2002)], [1, 1])

julia> plot([[DateTime(2001), DateTime(2002)]], [[1, 1]])
ERROR: Cannot convert DateTime to series data for plotting
Stacktrace:
  [1] error(s::String)
    @ Base ./error.jl:35
  [2] _prepare_series_data(x::DateTime)
    @ RecipesPipeline ~/.julia/packages/RecipesPipeline/BGM3l/src/series.jl:8
  [3] _series_data_vector(x::DateTime, plotattributes::Dict{Symbol, Any})
    @ RecipesPipeline ~/.julia/packages/RecipesPipeline/BGM3l/src/series.jl:36
  [4] (::RecipesPipeline.var"#21#24"{Dict{Symbol, Any}})(vi::DateTime)
    @ RecipesPipeline ./none:0
  [5] iterate
    @ ./generator.jl:47 [inlined]
  [6] _series_data_vector(v::Vector{DateTime}, plotattributes::Dict{Symbol, Any})
    @ RecipesPipeline ~/.julia/packages/RecipesPipeline/BGM3l/src/series.jl:51
  [7] #21
    @ ./none:0 [inlined]
  [8] iterate(::Base.Generator{Vector{Vector{DateTime}}, RecipesPipeline.var"#21#24"{Dict{Symbol, Any}}})
    @ Base ./generator.jl:47
  [9] _series_data_vector(v::Vector{Vector{DateTime}}, plotattributes::Dict{Symbol, Any})
    @ RecipesPipeline ~/.julia/packages/RecipesPipeline/BGM3l/src/series.jl:51
 [10] macro expansion
    @ ~/.julia/packages/RecipesPipeline/BGM3l/src/series.jl:128 [inlined]
 [11] apply_recipe(plotattributes::AbstractDict{Symbol, Any}, #unused#::Type{RecipesPipeline.SliceIt}, x::Any, y::Any, z::Any)
    @ RecipesPipeline ~/.julia/packages/RecipesBase/BRe07/src/RecipesBase.jl:300
 [12] _process_userrecipes!(plt::Any, plotattributes::Any, args::Any)
    @ RecipesPipeline ~/.julia/packages/RecipesPipeline/BGM3l/src/user_recipe.jl:38
 [13] recipe_pipeline!(plt::Any, plotattributes::Any, args::Any)
    @ RecipesPipeline ~/.julia/packages/RecipesPipeline/BGM3l/src/RecipesPipeline.jl:72
 [14] _plot!(plt::Plots.Plot, plotattributes::Any, args::Any)
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/rz1WP/src/plot.jl:223
 [15] plot(::Any, ::Vararg{Any}; kw::Base.Pairs{Symbol, V, Tuple{Vararg{Symbol, N}}, NamedTuple{names, T}} where {V, N, names, T<:Tuple{Vararg{Any, N}}})
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/rz1WP/src/plot.jl:102
 [16] plot(::Any, ::Any)
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/rz1WP/src/plot.jl:93
 [17] top-level scope
    @ REPL[35]:1

Backends

This bug occurs on ( insert x below )

Backend	yes	no	untested
gr (default)	x
pythonplot			x
plotlyjs			x
pgfplotsx			x
unicodeplots			x
inspectdr			x
gaston			x

Versions

Plots.jl version: 1.38.16
Backend version (]st -m <backend(s)>): 0.72.7
Output of versioninfo():

Julia Version 1.8.5
Commit 17cfb8e65e (2023-01-08 06:45 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: macOS (arm64-apple-darwin21.6.0)
  CPU: 8 × Apple M1
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-13.0.1 (ORCJIT, apple-m1)
  Threads: 1 on 4 virtual cores

[BeastyBlacksmith]

Agree, that this should work. But for your use-case, a matrix should do as well (where coulums are series), doesn't it?

[BeastyBlacksmith]

To claim this bounty the solution should handle vector of vectors for type recipes in general.