diff --git a/package/ntp/Config.in b/package/ntp/Config.in
index efd47e1895..97d933b5a8 100644
--- a/package/ntp/Config.in
+++ b/package/ntp/Config.in
@@ -12,7 +12,12 @@ if BR2_PACKAGE_NTP
 config BR2_PACKAGE_NTP_SNTP
 	bool "sntp"
 	help
-	  Simple network time protocol program
+	  Simple network time protocol program (a replacement
+	  for the ntpdate tool)
+
+	  A script is installed as S48sntp which will retrieve and
+	  step the time if there is a large difference before ntpd
+	  takes over the necessary slew adjustments in S49ntp.
 
 config BR2_PACKAGE_NTP_NTP_KEYGEN
 	bool "ntp-keygen"
diff --git a/package/ntp/S48sntp b/package/ntp/S48sntp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..96d8d507aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/ntp/S48sntp
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+DAEMON="sntp"
+# sntp uses all the IPs resolved for the hostname (i.e. pool.ntp.org has 4).
+# It will try each until they either all timeout or time has been set. Thus
+# default to only providing one NTP pool host.
+SNTP_SERVERS="pool.ntp.org"
+# Step if time delta is greater then 128ms, otherwise slew
+SNTP_ARGS="-Ss -M 128"
+SNTP_KEY_CACHE="/tmp/kod"
+
+# shellcheck source=/dev/null
+[ -r "/etc/default/$DAEMON" ] && . "/etc/default/$DAEMON"
+
+start() {
+	printf 'Starting %s: ' "$DAEMON"
+	# Create key cache file to prevents warning that file is missing
+	touch $SNTP_KEY_CACHE
+	# shellcheck disable=SC2086 # we need the word splitting
+	/usr/bin/$DAEMON $SNTP_ARGS -K $SNTP_KEY_CACHE $SNTP_SERVERS
+	# sntp behavior
+	# - Does not background
+	# - Does not infinitely block
+	# - Time-out w/o network = ~2 sec
+	# - Time-out w/ network = ~5sec * # of servers
+	status=$?
+	if [ "$status" -eq 0 ]; then
+		echo "OK"
+	else
+		echo "FAIL"
+	fi
+	return "$status"
+}
+
+stop() {
+	echo "Nothing to do, $DAEMON is not a daemon."
+}
+
+restart() {
+	stop
+	sleep 1
+	start
+}
+
+reload() {
+	echo "Nothing to do, $DAEMON does not support reload."
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	start|stop|restart|reload)
+		"$1";;
+	*)
+		echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload}"
+		exit 1
+esac
diff --git a/package/ntp/S49ntp b/package/ntp/S49ntp
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
diff --git a/package/ntp/ntp.mk b/package/ntp/ntp.mk
index af3c1aad9f..aad1cdd661 100644
--- a/package/ntp/ntp.mk
+++ b/package/ntp/ntp.mk
@@ -93,9 +93,18 @@ define NTP_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
 	$(INSTALL) -m 644 package/ntp/ntpd.etc.conf $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/ntp.conf
 endef
 
+# This script will step the time if there is a large difference
+# before ntpd takes over the necessary slew adjustments
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_NTP_SNTP),y)
+define NTP_INSTALL_INIT_SYSV_SNTP
+	$(INSTALL) -D -m 755 package/ntp/S48sntp $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/init.d/S48sntp
+endef
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_NTP_NTPD),y)
 define NTP_INSTALL_INIT_SYSV
 	$(INSTALL) -D -m 755 package/ntp/S49ntp $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/init.d/S49ntp
+	$(NTP_INSTALL_INIT_SYSV_SNTP)
 endef
 
 define NTP_INSTALL_INIT_SYSTEMD