Dates - Do you use Calendar controls effectively?

In Outlook, the Calendar control has a number of important features:

• Saturday and Sunday are displayed at the end
• Days that have data associated with them are bold
• The current day is highlighted with a box Users are familiar with the Outlook calendar control. When the calendar control is used it should incorporate all of these features of the Outlook calendar control.

❌ Figure: Bad example - Calendar Control - Sunday is at the front, today's date is not highlighted, and items with data are not bolded

✅ Figure: Good example - Calendar Control - Monday is at the front, today's date is highlighted, and items with data are bolded