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diff --git a/man/systemd-timesyncd.service.xml b/man/systemd-timesyncd.service.xml
index 84c4899ca..47e243c27 100644
--- a/man/systemd-timesyncd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-timesyncd.service.xml
@@ -57,17 +57,35 @@
                 <title>Description</title>
 
                 <para><filename>systemd-timesyncd</filename> is a
-                system service that may be used to synchronize the local
-                system clock with a Network Time Protocol Server.</para>
+                system service that may be used to synchronize the
+                local system clock with a remote Network Time Protocol
+                server. It also saves the local time to disk every
+                time the clock has been synchronized and uses this to
+                possibly advance the system realtime clock on
+                subsequent reboots to ensure it
+                monotonically advances even if the system lacks a
+                battery-buffered RTC chip.</para>
+
+                <para>The NTP servers contacted are determined from
+                the global settings in
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>timesyncd.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                the per-link static settings in
+                <filename>.network</filename> files, and the per-link
+                dynamic settings received over DHCP. See
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.network</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                for more details.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>
                 <title>See Also</title>
                 <para>
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>timesyncd.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.network</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-networkd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>timedatectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>hwclock</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                        <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>hwclock</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 </para>
         </refsect1>