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Clarify the semantics of the Log Timestamp field
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Contributes to open-telemetry#1875

This is part 1 of the change. Part 2 will add the observed timestamp field. See the issue
for the discussion and the description of the source vs observed timestamps.
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tigrannajaryan committed Dec 2, 2021
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Type: Timestamp, uint64 nanoseconds since Unix epoch.

Description: Time when the event occurred measured by the origin clock. This
field is optional, it may be missing if the timestamp is unknown.
Description: Time when the event occurred measured by the origin clock, i.e. the
time at the source. This field is optional, it may be missing if the source
timestamp is unknown.

### Trace Context Fields

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