diff --git a/Makefile-man.am b/Makefile-man.am
index 36e0ebbb672..e3c43b269ba 100644
--- a/Makefile-man.am
+++ b/Makefile-man.am
@@ -1244,11 +1244,16 @@ MANPAGES += \
 	man/systemd-timesyncd.service.8 \
 	man/timesyncd.conf.5
 MANPAGES_ALIAS += \
-	man/systemd-timesyncd.8
+	man/systemd-timesyncd.8 \
+	man/timesyncd.conf.d.5
 man/systemd-timesyncd.8: man/systemd-timesyncd.service.8
+man/timesyncd.conf.d.5: man/timesyncd.conf.5
 man/systemd-timesyncd.html: man/systemd-timesyncd.service.html
 	$(html-alias)
 
+man/timesyncd.conf.d.html: man/timesyncd.conf.html
+	$(html-alias)
+
 endif
 
 if ENABLE_VCONSOLE
diff --git a/man/timesyncd.conf.xml b/man/timesyncd.conf.xml
index aeb7182f912..1a56c2c5c45 100644
--- a/man/timesyncd.conf.xml
+++ b/man/timesyncd.conf.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
   along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 -->
 
-<refentry id="timesyncd.conf" conditional='ENABLE_TIMESYNCD'>
+<refentry id="timesyncd.conf" conditional='ENABLE_TIMESYNCD'
+          xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
         <refentryinfo>
                 <title>timesyncd.conf</title>
                 <productname>systemd</productname>
@@ -44,24 +45,28 @@
 
         <refnamediv>
                 <refname>timesyncd.conf</refname>
-                <refpurpose>Network Time Synchronization configuration file</refpurpose>
+                <refname>timesyncd.conf.d</refname>
+                <refpurpose>Network Time Synchronization configuration files</refpurpose>
         </refnamediv>
 
         <refsynopsisdiv>
                 <para><filename>/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf</filename></para>
+                <para><filename>/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf.d/*.conf</filename></para>
+                <para><filename>/run/systemd/timesyncd.conf.d/*.conf</filename></para>
+                <para><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/timesyncd.conf.d/*.conf</filename></para>
         </refsynopsisdiv>
 
         <refsect1>
                 <title>Description</title>
 
-                <para>When starting, systemd-timesyncd will read the
-                configuration file
-                <filename>timesyncd.conf</filename>.  This
-                configuration file controls NTP network time
+                <para>These configuration files control NTP network time
                 synchronization.</para>
 
         </refsect1>
 
+        <xi:include href="standard-conf.xml" xpointer="confd" />
+        <xi:include href="standard-conf.xml" xpointer="conf" />
+
         <refsect1>
                 <title>Options</title>
 
diff --git a/src/timesync/timesyncd-conf.c b/src/timesync/timesyncd-conf.c
index 4c2dcdb62b9..be1f4bb1510 100644
--- a/src/timesync/timesyncd-conf.c
+++ b/src/timesync/timesyncd-conf.c
@@ -97,8 +97,9 @@ int config_parse_servers(
 int manager_parse_config_file(Manager *m) {
         assert(m);
 
-        return config_parse(NULL, "/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf", NULL,
-                            "Time\0",
-                            config_item_perf_lookup, timesyncd_gperf_lookup,
-                            false, false, true, m);
+        return config_parse_many("/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf",
+                                 CONF_DIRS_NULSTR("systemd/timesyncd.conf"),
+                                 "Time\0",
+                                 config_item_perf_lookup, timesyncd_gperf_lookup,
+                                 false, m);
 }
diff --git a/src/timesync/timesyncd.conf.in b/src/timesync/timesyncd.conf.in
index 674a51dbd72..fc3c6c49cfd 100644
--- a/src/timesync/timesyncd.conf.in
+++ b/src/timesync/timesyncd.conf.in
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 #  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
 #  (at your option) any later version.
 #
+# You can override the directives in this file by creating files in
+# /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf.d/*.conf.
+#
 # See timesyncd.conf(5) for details
 
 [Time]