Feature/date range picker

[franckdervaux]

🔗 Linked issue

#252

❓ Type of change

• [ ] 📖 Documentation (updates to the documentation, readme or JSdoc annotations)
• [ ] 🐞 Bug fix (a non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• [ ] 👌 Enhancement (improving an existing functionality like performance)
• [x] ✨ New feature (a non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• [ ] 🧹 Chore (updates to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries)
• [ ] ⚠️ Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

📚 Description

This is a proposal for adding the selection of ranges to the DatePicker, as per #252. I understand this may not be accepted as-is, especially since the date picker is being rewritten as I understand, but it could be useful nevertheless.

📝 Checklist

• [x] I have linked an issue or discussion.
• [x] It's submitted to the main branch
• [ ] When resolving a specific issue, it's referenced in the PR's title (e.g. fix #xxx[,#xxx], where "xxx" is the issue number)
• [x] I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• [x] All tests are passing
• [x] New/updated tests are included
• [ ] I have updated the "upcoming" section inside docs/changelog.md explaining the changes I contributed

If adding a new feature, the PR's description includes:

• [x] A convincing reason for adding this feature (to avoid wasting your time, it's best to open a suggestion issue first and wait for approval before working on it)

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