MDL-18375 calendar: removed bloat of the base class and only introduced functionality for the date selector form elements

In the original patch we are overwriting core functions responsible for saving time in the database. This is very dangerous, we do not want to touch these functions as it could cause a complete fubar of the database. There are places we are forcing the use of the gregorian calendar as we are passing dates generated by the PHP date function, where as sometimes we pass dates from usergetdate (which was being overwritten to return the date specific to the calendar). We can not expect third party modules to change the calendar system depending on the format they pass to these functions. In future commits I will be removing these occurrences when they are associated with the content.