Example text in date fields - able to remove that?

This is such a small, but annoying, thing that I noticed about date fields. We have a series of date fields that we map and sync from Salesforce to Zendesk Organization fields. They outline go-live dates for all our various products. It's pretty common for some of these to be blank as most clients don't have every single product we offer. However, when first glancing at these fields, it appears that they do, because of this "e.g. October 1, 2008" example text that is in each field (screenshot below). Obviously upon further inspection, it's not real text, but at a glance it does get confusing. Is there a way to remove that?