To pass customized dates e.g. 2017/07/14. You have to remove the attribute readonly="readonly" and then send the date as text as follows:
sb_dt = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='sbDATE']")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].removeAttribute('readonly')", sb_dt);
sb_dt.send_keys("2017/07/14")