LCID and CODEPAGE problem

Hi

I've got a problem with Codepage, LCID, and related matters. I highly appreciate any help. The solution is not that urgent in respect to time, but is very important to me in general.
My server runs IIS 5 on WinXP. Although Farsi is installed on the server, I have set Windows locale to English (United States).
What I want to do is to store the date of page visits in an Access 2003 database. The Access DB file is created on the same machine.
Now, what I need is the date is stored in ENGLISH locale format not other.
When I run this:

<%
response.Write now()
%>

it gives me such:

8/13/2004 10:53:40 PM

and when I run this:

<%
session.LCID = 1065
response.Write now()
%>

,where 1065 is the locale ID for Farsi, I get this:

2004/08/13 10:53:52 &#1576;.&#1592;

(The last two characters mean just the same as PM. You may see them odd.)

When I run this:

<%
session.LCID = 1033
response.Write now()
%>

,obviuosly, I get the English date format again:

8/13/2004 10:54:05 PM

Now the problem: I use such code (simplified) to store the date in the db:

<%
dim conn, recset, connStr, SqlStr
connStr = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};Dbq=" & server.MapPath("db1.mdb")
set conn = server.CreateObject("ADODB.connection")
conn.open connStr
set recset = server.CreateObject("ADODB.recordset")
SqlStr = "SELECT x FROM Table1"
recset.open SqlStr,conn,,3
'while not recset.eof
'      response.write recset.Fields("x").value & "<br />"
'      recset.movenext
'wend
recset.AddNew
recset.Fields("x")=now()
recset.update
response.write "<br />" & now()
recset.close
set recset = nothing
set conn = nothing
%>

This saves the date in Farsi locale format. Even if I set the locale ID to 1033 (or anything, no matter what!) it continues saving that in Farsi format.
I guessed this is because incorrect Codepage format. I tried several possible codepages, from 1252 to 65001 (UTF-8), but no way!
If we accept that now() function returns a string, then this string must be the same, when it is used in response.write, and when it is part of a SQL Querry, but it is not in reality!

Any help is highly appreciated.
Huji


By the way, it took me a long time to know that Farsi locale is 1065, and I am looking for a complete list of locale IDs, and codepages, for different languages. This can be helped too.