For a site I'm working on using ASP.NET MVC, I intended to place a Date badge beside the blog and news posts I'm writing. Since in ASP.NET MVC there's no notion of custom controls (well, at least not like in WebForms) you'll have to do this manually, but as it turned out it was pretty easy to do. 

There's been a lot of request for web and windows controls supporting multiple cultures and calendars, like the already existing WinForm Controls of Farsi Library. The existing ASP.NET Calendar control does not render correctly when used in other cultures and this is the case when you're using FA-IR culture. 

If you've read my older posts, you already know about the problem of FA-IR culture and the default calendar. When creating applications that run in different cultures and languages, Date specific controls like DatePickers, Scheduling controls, etc usually use current Culture's calendar to calculate dates, and to represent a DateTime instance to string representation.