A simple date control

I needed a simple date control in my ASP.NET C# application. The calendar control provided with ASP.NET didn't work well for me because I wanted to make it easy to enter any year without the need to navigate through the years in the calendar. After I couldn't find such a control in a quick search I wrote a class that creates the controls I need dynamically.
I have a drop-down control for the day, with values 1 to 31, another drop down for the month, from "Jan" to "Dec", and a text control for the year.
Here is the class:

public class DateControl
{
static List _days = new List();
static List _months = new List();

public DateControl()
{
// fill days list
for (int i = 1; i <= 31; i++)
_days.Add(i.ToString());
// fill months list
_months.Add("Jan");
_months.Add("Feb");
_months.Add("Mar");
_months.Add("Apr");
_months.Add("May");
_months.Add("Jun");
_months.Add("Jul");
_months.Add("Aug");
_months.Add("Sep");
_months.Add("Oct");
_months.Add("Nov");
_months.Add("Dec");
} // DateControl

public void Create(Control container, string pref, string ID,
DateTime dateStart)
{
// day drop down
DropDownList dropDay = new DropDownList();
dropDay.ID = pref + "_drop_day_" + ID;
foreach (string strDay in _days)
dropDay.Items.Add(new ListItem(strDay));
dropDay.SelectedIndex = dateStart.Day - 1;
container.Controls.Add(dropDay);
// space
Literal li = new Literal();
li.Text = " ";
container.Controls.Add(li);
// months
DropDownList dropMonth = new DropDownList();
dropMonth.ID = pref + "_drop_month_" + ID;
foreach (string strMonth in _months)
dropMonth.Items.Add(new ListItem(strMonth));
dropMonth.SelectedIndex = dateStart.Month - 1;
container.Controls.Add(dropMonth);
// space
li = new Literal();
li.Text = " ";
container.Controls.Add(li);
// year
TextBox txt = new TextBox();
txt.ID = pref + "_txt_year_" + ID;
txt.MaxLength = 5;
txt.Columns = 5;
txt.Text = dateStart.Year.ToString();
container.Controls.Add(txt);
} // Create

public void Create(Control container, string pref, string ID)
{
Create(container, pref, ID, DateTime.Today);
}

And here is an example of how to use it:

DateControl date = new DateControl();
date.Create(panel, "prefix", uniq_ID, initialDate);

Where panel is a Panel control that will contain the date controls, "prefix" is some prefix all 3 control ID's will have, uniq_ID is some string that will appear at the end of each control's ID, and initialDate is a DateTime variable with the initial date value of the controls. This variable can be omitted and then the controls will have the initial value of today's date.