[4.4] Fix Banners application crashes

[joomdonation]

Pull Request for Issue #42841.

Summary of Changes

The current code in BannerHelper classs bind a Joomla\CMS\Date\Date object to :date parameter and could cause application crashes in some environments as reported in the issue. This PR changes code so that the parameter is bound by a string in Datetime format instead (same with the code in other places in Joomla). I also rename the variable to $nowDate to imply that this is current date time (also, same with similar codes use in other places in Joomla)

Testing Instructions

• Use Joomla 4.4
• Apply patch
• Access to Banners Management screen from administrator area of your site

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

Sometime application crashes

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

Always works, no crashes anymore.

Link to documentations

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• No documentation changes for docs.joomla.org needed
• No documentation changes for manual.joomla.org needed

[alikon]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 183b562

code review

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[chmst]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 183b562

code review

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[chmst]

RTC

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[laoneo]

Thanks!