diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/status/status_manager.go b/pkg/kubelet/status/status_manager.go
index 5b6e7ea5a7a..c7cb740586e 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/status/status_manager.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/status/status_manager.go
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ func (m *manager) needsReconcile(uid types.UID, status v1.PodStatus) bool {
 // Related issue #15262/PR #15263 to move apiserver to RFC339NANO is closed.
 func normalizeStatus(pod *v1.Pod, status *v1.PodStatus) *v1.PodStatus {
 	bytesPerStatus := kubecontainer.MaxPodTerminationMessageLogLength
-	if containers := len(pod.Spec.Containers) + len(pod.Spec.InitContainers); containers > 0 {
+	if containers := len(pod.Spec.Containers) + len(pod.Spec.InitContainers) + len(pod.Spec.EphemeralContainers); containers > 0 {
 		bytesPerStatus = bytesPerStatus / containers
 	}
 	normalizeTimeStamp := func(t *metav1.Time) {
@@ -1021,23 +1021,23 @@ func normalizeStatus(pod *v1.Pod, status *v1.PodStatus) *v1.PodStatus {
 		normalizeTimeStamp(&condition.LastTransitionTime)
 	}
 
-	// update container statuses
-	for i := range status.ContainerStatuses {
-		cstatus := &status.ContainerStatuses[i]
-		normalizeContainerState(&cstatus.State)
-		normalizeContainerState(&cstatus.LastTerminationState)
+	normalizeContainerStatuses := func(containerStatuses []v1.ContainerStatus) {
+		for i := range containerStatuses {
+			cstatus := &containerStatuses[i]
+			normalizeContainerState(&cstatus.State)
+			normalizeContainerState(&cstatus.LastTerminationState)
+		}
 	}
-	// Sort the container statuses, so that the order won't affect the result of comparison
+
+	normalizeContainerStatuses(status.ContainerStatuses)
 	sort.Sort(kubetypes.SortedContainerStatuses(status.ContainerStatuses))
 
-	// update init container statuses
-	for i := range status.InitContainerStatuses {
-		cstatus := &status.InitContainerStatuses[i]
-		normalizeContainerState(&cstatus.State)
-		normalizeContainerState(&cstatus.LastTerminationState)
-	}
-	// Sort the container statuses, so that the order won't affect the result of comparison
+	normalizeContainerStatuses(status.InitContainerStatuses)
 	kubetypes.SortInitContainerStatuses(pod, status.InitContainerStatuses)
+
+	normalizeContainerStatuses(status.EphemeralContainerStatuses)
+	sort.Sort(kubetypes.SortedContainerStatuses(status.EphemeralContainerStatuses))
+
 	return status
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/status/status_manager_test.go b/pkg/kubelet/status/status_manager_test.go
index 8d17f1691cc..ac371469a1e 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/status/status_manager_test.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/status/status_manager_test.go
@@ -445,22 +445,32 @@ func shuffle(statuses []v1.ContainerStatus) []v1.ContainerStatus {
 }
 
 func TestStatusEquality(t *testing.T) {
-	pod := v1.Pod{
-		Spec: v1.PodSpec{},
-	}
-	containerStatus := []v1.ContainerStatus{}
-	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
-		s := v1.ContainerStatus{
-			Name: fmt.Sprintf("container%d", i),
+	getContainersAndStatuses := func() ([]v1.Container, []v1.ContainerStatus) {
+		var containers []v1.Container
+		var containerStatuses []v1.ContainerStatus
+		for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
+			containerName := fmt.Sprintf("container%d", i)
+			containers = append(containers, v1.Container{Name: containerName})
+			containerStatuses = append(containerStatuses, v1.ContainerStatus{Name: containerName})
 		}
-		containerStatus = append(containerStatus, s)
+		return containers, containerStatuses
+	}
+	containers, containerStatuses := getContainersAndStatuses()
+	pod := v1.Pod{
+		Spec: v1.PodSpec{
+			InitContainers: containers,
+		},
 	}
 	podStatus := v1.PodStatus{
-		ContainerStatuses: containerStatus,
+		ContainerStatuses:          containerStatuses,
+		InitContainerStatuses:      containerStatuses,
+		EphemeralContainerStatuses: containerStatuses,
 	}
 	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
 		oldPodStatus := v1.PodStatus{
-			ContainerStatuses: shuffle(podStatus.ContainerStatuses),
+			ContainerStatuses:          shuffle(podStatus.ContainerStatuses),
+			InitContainerStatuses:      shuffle(podStatus.InitContainerStatuses),
+			EphemeralContainerStatuses: shuffle(podStatus.EphemeralContainerStatuses),
 		}
 		normalizeStatus(&pod, &oldPodStatus)
 		normalizeStatus(&pod, &podStatus)
@@ -504,8 +514,9 @@ func TestStatusNormalizationEnforcesMaxBytes(t *testing.T) {
 		containerStatus = append(containerStatus, s)
 	}
 	podStatus := v1.PodStatus{
-		InitContainerStatuses: containerStatus[:24],
-		ContainerStatuses:     containerStatus[24:],
+		InitContainerStatuses:      containerStatus[:16],
+		ContainerStatuses:          containerStatus[16:32],
+		EphemeralContainerStatuses: containerStatus[32:],
 	}
 	result := normalizeStatus(&pod, &podStatus)
 	count := 0
@@ -521,6 +532,49 @@ func TestStatusNormalizationEnforcesMaxBytes(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestStatusNormalizeTimeStamp(t *testing.T) {
+	pod := v1.Pod{
+		Spec: v1.PodSpec{},
+	}
+
+	now := metav1.Now()
+	podStatus := v1.PodStatus{
+		ContainerStatuses: []v1.ContainerStatus{
+			{State: v1.ContainerState{Running: &v1.ContainerStateRunning{StartedAt: now}}},
+			{State: v1.ContainerState{Terminated: &v1.ContainerStateTerminated{StartedAt: now, FinishedAt: now}}},
+		},
+		InitContainerStatuses: []v1.ContainerStatus{
+			{State: v1.ContainerState{Running: &v1.ContainerStateRunning{StartedAt: now}}},
+			{State: v1.ContainerState{Terminated: &v1.ContainerStateTerminated{StartedAt: now, FinishedAt: now}}},
+		},
+		EphemeralContainerStatuses: []v1.ContainerStatus{
+			{State: v1.ContainerState{Running: &v1.ContainerStateRunning{StartedAt: now}}},
+			{State: v1.ContainerState{Terminated: &v1.ContainerStateTerminated{StartedAt: now, FinishedAt: now}}},
+		},
+	}
+
+	expectedTime := now.DeepCopy().Rfc3339Copy()
+	expectedPodStatus := v1.PodStatus{
+		ContainerStatuses: []v1.ContainerStatus{
+			{State: v1.ContainerState{Running: &v1.ContainerStateRunning{StartedAt: expectedTime}}},
+			{State: v1.ContainerState{Terminated: &v1.ContainerStateTerminated{StartedAt: expectedTime, FinishedAt: expectedTime}}},
+		},
+		InitContainerStatuses: []v1.ContainerStatus{
+			{State: v1.ContainerState{Running: &v1.ContainerStateRunning{StartedAt: expectedTime}}},
+			{State: v1.ContainerState{Terminated: &v1.ContainerStateTerminated{StartedAt: expectedTime, FinishedAt: expectedTime}}},
+		},
+		EphemeralContainerStatuses: []v1.ContainerStatus{
+			{State: v1.ContainerState{Running: &v1.ContainerStateRunning{StartedAt: expectedTime}}},
+			{State: v1.ContainerState{Terminated: &v1.ContainerStateTerminated{StartedAt: expectedTime, FinishedAt: expectedTime}}},
+		},
+	}
+
+	normalizedStatus := normalizeStatus(&pod, &podStatus)
+	if !isPodStatusByKubeletEqual(&expectedPodStatus, normalizedStatus) {
+		t.Fatalf("The timestamp is not correctly converted to RFC3339 format.")
+	}
+}
+
 func TestStaticPod(t *testing.T) {
 	staticPod := getTestPod()
 	staticPod.Annotations = map[string]string{kubetypes.ConfigSourceAnnotationKey: "file"}