German Date - GMDATE Function

Hello, When I use the gmdate function, I get the English date, e.g. October. Is it possible to get the date in German or another language? I really need the server setting up so that it can handle different languages. I suppose I could get the month as a number, and then convert the number, but this seems a bit tacky! Any help would be much appreciated! I have tried to look at the German mannual, but I think they use the same calls to gmdate, and that PHP is different. Is this so? How would I get around this? I don't know much, if any, German, so would need to use the English PHP. THANKS! Steve