Trying to increment a value every 5 seconds

ESPHome
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I’m trying to figure out how to increment a number template using time. When I view the elapsed_time entity in HA, it never changes from 0. I’m assuming it’s a syntax issue but I’m not able to figure it out. Help please?

number:
  - platform: template
    name: "Elapsed time"
    id: elapsed_time
    optimistic: true
    min_value: 0
    max_value: 100
    step: 1        

time:
  - platform: sntp
    on_time:
      - seconds: /5
        then:
          - number.increment: elapsed_time
2

By using interval looks working fine:

interval:
  - interval: 5s
    then:
      - number.increment: elapsed_time

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Thanks! I was overthinking it.