Last edited: 19 Aug 2019
For those who would still encounter issues with CMOS writes and subsequent BIOS resets or long BIOS POST at reboot, the attached pre-patched AppleRTC kexts should cure things.
As indicated at InsanelyMac and other places, the patch consists of the following binary modification of the kext binary file:
Find: 75 2E 0F B6
Replace by: EB 2E 0F B6
From Mavericks 10.9 to Mojave 10.14, AppleRTC shows a version v2.0. The patched kext can be used "as is" and, because version is up'ed to 92.0, will take precedence over the vanilla kext once placed in /S/L/E, in /L/E or injected through the bootloader from /E/E/ or E/C/k/10.x or E/C/k/Other folders.
Patched_10.9_AppleRTC.kext.zip
Patched_10.10_AppleRTC.kext.zip
Patched_10.11_AppleRTC.kext.zip
Patched_10.12_AppleRTC.kext.zip
Patched_10.13_AppleRTC.kext.zip
Patched_AppleRTC_10.14.3.kext.zip