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If you're not looking for ways to speak about temporal relations generally, but are looking for ways to express the idea "this idea isn't new", we cannot really say it in a single word. That's not …

Since the question is becoming clarified with comments, a second crack. The question does not seem to be how to refer to an ancient author when discussing his or her texts. We can and do say "Aristo …

The following are idiomatic: When did you open the shop today? At what time did you open the shop today? When does the shop open? At what time does the shop open?

The idiomatic versions would use a "dummy" subject: It is night-time in New York or simply It's night in New York. Another melodramatic possibility: New York is still in darkness when Londoner …

On Monday I do yoga. (repeated event) ---> is this correct? If a native speaker is looking at a calendar, say, and referring not to a particular Monday, but to Monday as one of the seven days of …

Is it something artists put in their lyrics in order to seem more "artsy"... No, it isn't artsy, it's idiomatic English. "Since" has a temporal meaning as well. Since you've been gone, I've …

during that time refers to another time in the current context, perhaps earlier in the sentence. It is that ultimate reference which will determine whether the present perfect is grammatical or not. …

There's no problem with using recently and the simple past. In that case, the reference is to an action that was completed or an event that took place in the recent past. There's a gray area, howeve …

The only times I can think of, where your second version without until would be idiomatic, is in response to a question in which you are denying the assertion of the question: Prosecutor: Isn't it t …