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Time and tide wait for no man. Our first record of the proverb is from St Marher in 1225: And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet. When it was already considered ancient. As near as I can make out, the Middle English proverb quoted above means: “And the tide and the time that you were born shall be blessed.”
A possible duplicate has been raised for my question: Time and tide wait for no man. However, in the mentioned duplicate, the OP is not interested in knowing which construct is correct. He's rather interested in knowing the nuance between tide and time. Hence, the answers provided there also talk about that nuance, rather than answering which ...
(In this case, date and time can be viewed as one item, because they are bound together. Once the date changes, the time automatically changes.) The reader may find the date is acceptable, but the time does not work for him/her.Then, you can keep the date and change only the time. (In this case, date and time are viewed as two items.)
The nautical maneuver against a surging tide is the same as against an angry sea. The ship is turned to stem the onslaught. To “stem the tide” means that to overcome serious problems, you must face them head-on. So to answer point 2 and 3 I think that the original and more common meaning of "stem the tide" is to stop, to hold back (something).
(b) Time and tide wait for no one (c) Waste not, want not. These are three different random proverbs, composed with three very different structures, and have no room for, no need for, nor rules for tag questions. The question would have been OK to give to native speakers, who would discover fast that the given tags were ungrammatical.
Which time is it? This sounds odd - nobody asks which time it is, rather what time it is. Going on the what/which protocol as mentioned above however, which would be the correct pronoun given that times of the day can be considered definite values.
In the first sentence time refers to the amount of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years, decades, centuries, millennia and so on. This noun is uncountable. In example (2) times refers to the number of occurrences. The number of instances that something happened. This is the same type of time as in "I asked her three times". That question ...
"The rising tide lifts all boats," and "the light that shines farthest shines brightest at home." From Henry B. F. McFarland, "The Man by Man Rise of a Race of Men," in Association Men (January 1915): The rising tide lifts all the boats upon it. All parts of the colored [Young Men's Christian] Association movement have shared in the new progress.
I've also been told that it is correct to use "the time and place is listed on the invitation" because time and place are referring to a single event which is a singular subject. – Pat Commented Feb 15, 2018 at 2:06
(Yet the term average wait time has about five times the hits as average wait times.) Are you speaking about a singular event or singular subject? Or plural? (Traveling together, we is treated as singular in re time/s.) Consider examples using grade instead of time: I received an above average grade in Physics. (this semester's grade)