Allow the placeholder text for the date picker to be customized. For example, some may prefer "MM/DD/YYY" to be displayed instead of "month/day/year"
This feature was included in the 1.4.0 version of the DateInputs package! Please refer to this section of our documentation to see the feature in action: https://www.telerik.com/kendo-angular-ui/components/dateinputs/dateinput/#toc-placeholders
As of 2017-11-13 (v14.0), this feature seems to be implemented.
Often, the width of the field is set according to the expected text. Given the default placeholder, this width would be unreasonably large in comparison to the data it usually holds (especially so when time is also included).