(connectors/spanmetricsconnector): Spanmetrics Connector, move starttimestamps from root-level span to child-level spans #36019
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Description
startimestamps for metrics are stored at resource level. Child spans that occur sparsely or async process that occurs much later also use these starttimestamps which is incorrect. This MR moves the start timestamp (and lastsseen timestamp) from root span level(resource level) to child span level (metric level).
POC for #35994
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Fixes #35994
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