locale definition with French republican calendar

Question

I wonder if it is possible to create a locale definition that would make the C library format the dates according to the French republican calendar.

I expect then, for example, run `date' and get something like "Sex Bru 5 11:43:51 CET 2012".

Answer 1

No, the calendar is not something that may be customised with locales.

There's a perl DateTime calendar module for the French Revolutionary Calendar though.

$ perl -MDateTime::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary -le 'print DateTime::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary->now->strftime("%c")'
Sex 06 Bru 0221 6:97:80