Does anyone know if there is a reason why the 2020--006 security update is not on the support.apple.com/downloads site? I prefer to keep a proper downloaded copy in case I need to reinstall later. Or finally sort out my rarely used mac mini.
When using prepositions think of "till" and "until" as being exclusive of the following noun, i.e. they refer to what came before it, and "to" as being inclusive of it.
"until now" would imply that the "until" (representing the past) and "now" (the present) refer to separate periods of time. That is that "until now" is a different period of time, excluding now.
"to date," though, would imply that the "to" (the past) and "date" (the present) refer to the same period of time. That is "to date" is the same period of time which included now.
I hope that makes sense? There are alway exceptions too, but context can be such an important feature of English that, at least to me, you were perfectly understandable to native speakers.
Had you meant that you were now having problems you would have said something about them. So without that explicit context it makes more sense to interpret that you meant 'to date" rather than meaning you were now having problems.
So it is not something you need to be concerned about as you will almost alway be easily understood. I think the problem was that avz is probably also not a native English speaker, so it was the extra translation that caused the confusion.
