BUFFALO, N.Y. — High above Buffalo’s East Side, inside the tower of Corpus Christi Church, time quietly passes. But twice a year, one man climbs two towers to make sure it stays on track.

“These are my clocks,” Martin Ederer said with a small grin. “I’ve been taking care of them for a good many years.”

For more than two decades, Ederer has been the quiet caretaker of one of the last working church clocks in Buffalo. While most of us rely on our phones to automatically adjust for daylight saving time, Martin does it the old-fashioned way — by hand.

“It’s good exercise,” he laughs. He said, the clocks at Corpus Christi date back to the late 1940s. They’re electric, not the classic pendulum style, but still a rare working piece of Buffalo’s history.

“You just have to pull a pin and spin t

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