Thanks I will give it a try.  I've found a DLL that may also do the job.



Jesper Harder wrote:

>swk <sunwukong@hananet.net> writes:
>
>  
>
>>Each line starts with a modified ISO date    e.g.,   19991203   (YYYYMMDD)
>>
>>Is there any way to pull the ISO Dates to a file and then append the
>>equivilant Chinese dates to a file?
>>    
>>
>
>I don't think there's any predefined functionality for that.  Here's a
>suggestion for a way you could implement it.  
>
>Evaluate the following, load the file with the ISO dates in a buffer and
>do `M-x jh-iso-to-chinese', which will put the Chinese dates in another
>buffer.
>
>
>(defun jh-iso-to-chinese ()
>  (interactive)
>  (goto-char (point-min))
>  (while (re-search-forward "^\\([[:digit:]]\\{4\\}\\)\\([[:digit:]]\\{2\\}\\)\\([[:digit:]]\\{2\\}\\)" nil t)
>    (let ((str (format "%s\n" (calendar-chinese-date-string 
>			       (mapcar 'string-to-int 
>				       (list (match-string 1) 
>					     (match-string 2) 
>					     (match-string 3)))))))
>    (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*chinese output*")
>      (insert str))))
>  (switch-to-buffer "*chinese output*"))
>  
>