Add ability to specify start time
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In the move from PHPA v0.10.0 to v0.11.0 the PHPA was changed to no longer be based on the Custom Pod Autoscaler framework. This meant that there was no longer in built support for the startTime field, which was very useful for using season based models such as Holt-Winters (e.g. define a season as a single day, starting at midnight).
BREAKING CHANGE: Since no longer built as a CustomPodAutoscaler the startTime configuration is no longer available: https://custom-pod-autoscaler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/configuration/#starttime.
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be good if this functionality was implemented directly in the PHPA again.
Since we probably still want a functional autoscaler before this start time, the only thing that could change would be that models would only start applying after the start time, but data would still be gathered and normal HPA operations would occur.
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This is available in release v0.13.0.