I\'ve been spending quite some time looking for a charting plugin for time tracking, ie. Engine Time Tracking chart as following image:
You can try to use column range chart or stacked with datetime type of axis.
http://www.highcharts.com/demo/columnrange
http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#xAxis.type
You should be able to do this in Flotr (which has a better license than highcharts) by just throwing what they showed in this blog post on its side.