I have a record with date and time, and I would want to convert the transaction date from current date, differentiate and show number of days. For e.g. If the the record has got a date time, which is 1 hours before than Now, the system should show an hour ago... Similarly if there is a record with 3 days before then instead of showing a date, I would want to show "3 days ago".

No need to use any custom solution. You can use <code>android.text.format.DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString</code> <blockquote> It returns a string describing 'time' as a time relative to 'now'. </blockquote> reference: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/format/DateUtils.html