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locale definition with French republican calendar

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 ...
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Get “date” to understand a timestamp phrase of a different language

My web-scraping scripts have long enjoyed using date -d to read in human-formatted time and date stamps like "March 11, 1999" and convert to any other format I need via the -s parameter. How might I ...