Prepare a form with specific date formats in the ES Date field

I've spent weeks trying to figure this out.

I'm creating templates in Adobe Acrobat for my users to send for Adobe Sign signatures.

I have my Adobe Sign enterprise level date default set to MM/DD/YYYY

Whenever someone gets to the "Specify where to sign" step and they create a date field there the default setting takes place.  However, if I have the es_date field already in the template they have to remember to go to the field during the "Specify where to sign" step and change it, otherwise it defaults to MMM DD, YYYY

I've done a bunch of research trying to find how to get this to work as I expect it to and am coming up empty.  Lost of folks say to set the form to not require e signatures during the prepare form step and I can set the format, but this document *is* being used to send out for Adobe Sign signatures so that's not an option.

Most of the form fields I've been able to configure correctly by naming them with the correct syntax ie; Date of signing_es_:signer:date I'm thinking there has to be a way to specify format in there, but I can't find the syntax anywhere.  I've tried Date of signing_es_:signer:date("MM/DD/YYYY") , Date of signing_es_:signer:date_format("MM/DD/YYYY") , and a bunch of other iterations I could think of but no success.

Does anyone know how to do this?