If you know a max and min start date the jQRangeSlider is awesome.
For our application we need more flexibility (i.e. no fixed start and end, and we don't support mobile) so this is more what we'd be using http://www.uibox.in/item/31. Click the range tab and you'll see some of the awesomeness.
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