Upcoming events module and menu item

Now back to the Universal Module.

I need a different date format. I was able to get it with the following:

$db = JFactory::getDBO();
$query = "SELECT value" . " FROM l1icy_flexicontent_fields_item_relations" . " WHERE item_id = {{item->id}}" . " AND field_id = 15" ;
$db->setQuery($query);
$result_date = $db->loadResult();
echo date('j', strtotime($result_date)) . "<br />" . date('M', strtotime($result_date));

feild_id 15 is a date field.

It's all good except for the language. It's always showing in english. i tried to play with setlocale(LC_TIME,'fr_FR') with no luck.

Thanks for your help.

Nothing?