diff --git a/python/ray/tune/scripts.py b/python/ray/tune/scripts.py
index 361dedfddffb..72db1453af19 100644
--- a/python/ray/tune/scripts.py
+++ b/python/ray/tune/scripts.py
@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import click
-import logging
 import glob
 import json
 import os
+from datetime import datetime
+
+
 import pandas as pd
-# from ray.tune.trial_runner import TrialRunner
-import sys
+
+from ray.tune.trial import Trial
 
 
 def _flatten_dict(dt):
@@ -31,60 +33,90 @@ def _flatten_dict(dt):
 def cli():
     pass
 
-@cli.command()
-@click.argument("experiment_path", required=True, type=str)
-def list_trials(experiment_path):
-    _list_trials(experiment_path)
 
-def _list_trials(experiment_path):
+DEFAULT_EXPERIMENT_INFO_KEYS = (
+    "trial_name",
+    "trial_id",
+    "status",
+    "num_failures",
+    "logdir"
+)
+
+DEFAULT_PROJECT_INFO_KEYS = (
+    "name",
+    "timestamp",
+    "total_trials",
+    "running_trials",
+    "terminated_trials",
+    "error_trials",
+)
+
+
+def _list_trials(experiment_path, info_keys=DEFAULT_EXPERIMENT_INFO_KEYS):
     experiment_path = os.path.expanduser(experiment_path)
-    print("start glob")
     globs = glob.glob(os.path.join(experiment_path, "experiment_state*.json"))
-    print(globs)
     filename = max(list(globs))
-    print("found")
+
     with open(filename) as f:
         experiment_state = json.load(f)
 
-    for trial_state in experiment_state["checkpoints"]:
-        print("{trial_name}\t{trial_id}\t{status}\t{num_failures}\t{logdir}".format(
-            **trial_state))
+    checkpoints = pd.DataFrame.from_records(experiment_state['checkpoints'])
+    # TODO(hartikainen): The logdir is often too verbose to be viewed in a
+    # table.
+    checkpoints['logdir'] = checkpoints['logdir'].str.replace(
+        experiment_path, '')
+
+    print(checkpoints[list(info_keys)].to_string())
+
 
 @cli.command()
-@click.argument("project_path", required=True, type=str)
-def list_experiments(project_path):
-    _list_experiments(project_path)
+@click.argument("experiment_path", required=True, type=str)
+def list_trials(experiment_path):
+    _list_trials(experiment_path)
+
 
-def _list_experiments(project_path):
+def _list_experiments(project_path, info_keys=DEFAULT_PROJECT_INFO_KEYS):
     base, experiment_paths, _ = list(os.walk(project_path))[0]  # clean this
-    experiment_collection = {}
+
+    experiment_data_collection = []
     for experiment_path in experiment_paths:
-        experiment_state_path = glob.glob(os.path.join(base, experiment_path,  "experiment_state*.json"))
+        experiment_state_path = glob.glob(os.path.join(
+            base,
+            experiment_path,
+            "experiment_state*.json"))
+
         if not experiment_state_path:
+            # TODO(hartikainen): Print some warning?
             continue
-        else:
-            with open(experiment_state_path[0]) as f:
-                experiment_state = json.load(f)
-                # import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()
-            experiment_collection[experiment_state_path[0]] = (pd.DataFrame(experiment_state["checkpoints"]), experiment_state["runner_data"], experiment_state["time_stamp"])
-
-    # total_ = pd.concat(experiment_collection.values())
-
-    from ray.tune.trial import Trial
-    all_values = []
-    for experiment_path, (df, data, timestamp) in experiment_collection.items():
-        status = {}
-        status["name"] = experiment_path
-        status["timestamp"] = timestamp
-        status["total_running"] = (df["status"] == Trial.RUNNING).sum()
-        status["total_terminated"] = (df["status"] == Trial.TERMINATED).sum()
-        status["total_errored"] = (df["status"] == Trial.ERROR).sum()
-        status["total_trials"] = df.shape[0]
-        all_values += [status]
-
-    final_dataframe = pd.DataFrame(all_values)
-    print(final_dataframe.to_string())
 
+        with open(experiment_state_path[0]) as f:
+            experiment_state = json.load(f)
+
+        checkpoints = pd.DataFrame(experiment_state["checkpoints"])
+        runner_data = experiment_state["runner_data"]
+        timestamp = experiment_state["timestamp"]
+
+        experiment_data = {
+            "name": experiment_path,
+            "start_time": runner_data["_start_time"],
+            "timestamp": datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp),
+            "total_trials": checkpoints.shape[0],
+            "running_trials": (checkpoints["status"] == Trial.RUNNING).sum(),
+            "terminated_trials": (
+                checkpoints["status"] == Trial.TERMINATED).sum(),
+            "error_trials": (checkpoints["status"] == Trial.ERROR).sum(),
+         }
+
+        experiment_data_collection.append(experiment_data)
+
+    info_dataframe = pd.DataFrame(experiment_data_collection)
+    print(info_dataframe[list(info_keys)].to_string())
+
+
+@cli.command()
+@click.argument("project_path", required=True, type=str)
+def list_experiments(project_path):
+    _list_experiments(project_path)
 
 
 cli.add_command(list_trials, name="ls")
diff --git a/python/ray/tune/trial_runner.py b/python/ray/tune/trial_runner.py
index 54d463f0b729..f97b4711eac5 100644
--- a/python/ray/tune/trial_runner.py
+++ b/python/ray/tune/trial_runner.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ def __init__(self,
         self._stop_queue = []
         self._metadata_checkpoint_dir = metadata_checkpoint_dir
 
-        self._start_time = self.datetime.today()
+        self._start_time = datetime.today()
         self._session = self._start_time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
 
     @classmethod