 <p>Please don't do it the way you used to. Three different drop-downs is not very user friendly.</p> <p>jQuery is in the MVC project template by default. You can get some really nice <a href="http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">date selection</a> experiences using plug-ins (such as the linked datepicker). There is lots of documentation on how to get this working (and its really easy) so google this first.</p>