Reordering of items, month format to short

I would like to propose new functionality:

1) be able to set the order of the input boxes per Locale/Date format.
For example, US dates are shown as MM/DD/YYYY, not DD/MM/YYYY.
The date control always renders day, month and then year. For different cultures this can be confusing

2) Abilty to set the month format.
For example, instead of "January" I may want to have "JAN" or "Jan."

3) Nice to have:
Combo box for day instead of text box that lists all the days in the currently selected month and also supports leap-years for February.