Reformat cumulative start time spec for clarity#4902
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### Traces - Add normative language to the Tracing API/SDK spec concurrency requirements. ([#4887](#4887)) ### Metrics - Add additional in-development requirements to metric start timestamps. ([#4807](#4807), [#4902](#4902)) ### Logs - Stabilize optional `Exception` parameter to Logger Emit. ([#4858](#4858)) ### Compatibility - Stabilize Prometheus Summary to OTLP Summary transformation. ([#4872](#4872)) ### SDK Configuration - Declarative configuration: allow language-specific prefixes in environment variable substitution. ([#4891](#4891)) - Mark significant portions of declarative configuration as stable. ([#4568](#4568))
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@jack-berg found this while trying to implement the new start time spec. The cumulative section is a bit hard to read, and the ordering of sentences makes it a bit unclear if asynchronous cumulative instruments should use a new start time each interval or not. This PR just re-orders the statements to make them more readable.