sdk/metric: Set StartTime for gauge metric points #4345
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Fixes #4269
Remarks
We may postpone until open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#3540 (or open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#3576) clarifies
StartTimeUnixNano
.On the other hand, I am not sure when it happens. During the spec spec SIG meeting it looks that there is no common agreement what the value should be. However, people see that it is worth to set it as a "non-zero" value. I decided it may be worth to make a baby step. This is why I decided propose this PR. Especially that I think it is inline with the current recommendation: