Can I use accessor methods in a constructor?

I am writing a simple Perl module that handles time and date information. Below is a simplified version of the constructor and one of the accessor methods:

package Time;

# Constructor
sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my %args  = @_;

    # Create an empty object
    my $self = bless {};

    # Get input arguments
    my $second = exists $args{'second'} ? $args{'second'} : (localtime)[0];

    # Use the accessor to validate and populate object data
    $self->second($second);

    return $self;
}

# Second accessor
sub second {
    my $self   = shift;
    my $second = shift;

    # Input validation
    if (defined $second) {
        if ($second =~ m{^\d+$} && $second >= 0 && $second <= 59) {
            $self->{'second'} = $second;
        }
        else {
            die "'second' must be an integer between 0 and 59!";
        }
    }

    return $self->{'second'};
}

My question is... Is it acceptable to use an accessor in object construction in Perl?

Using the accessor inside of the constructor makes it so I don't need all of the validation code in the constructor itself since the input is validated by the accessor, but is this bad practice?

Is there any reason I would not want to do this?