There was a sort of rivalry in the Pacific to jockey to the front by wrangling time-zones: https://www.csmonitor.com/1999/1201/p1s4.html https://www.csmonitor.c

There was a sort of rivalry in the Pacific to jockey to the front by wrangling time-zones: https://www.csmonitor.com/1999/1201/p1s4.html https://www.csmonitor.com/1999/1201/p1s4.html Other than that I don't think there was anything remarkable in play. Everyone was too busy patching systems for Y2K to deal with other issues.