One possible approach would be to directly replace the .NET format specifiers with their jquery counterparts, as you can see in the following code:
public static string ConvertDateFormat(string format)
{
string currentFormat = format;
currentFormat = currentFormat.Replace("dddd", "DD");
currentFormat = currentFormat.Replace("ddd", "D");
if (currentFormat.Contains("MMMM"))
{
currentFormat = currentFormat.Replace("MMMM", "MM");
}
else if (currentFormat.Contains("MMM"))
{
currentFormat = currentFormat.Replace("MMM", "M");
}
else if (currentFormat.Contains("MM"))
{
currentFormat = currentFormat.Replace("MM", "mm");
}
else
{
currentFormat = currentFormat.Replace("M", "m");
}
currentFormat = currentFormat.Contains("yyyy") ? currentFormat.Replace("yyyy", "yy") : currentFormat.Replace("yy", "y");
return currentFormat;
}
: http://rajeeshcv.com/2010/02/28/JQueryUI-Datepicker-in-ASP-Net-MVC/