SmartDate's Text Property

[Chicagoan2016]

We have been using SmartDate in our objects for as long as I remember, recently someone asked why can't use the Text Property of SmartDate to set the Date Value of the SmartDate instead of initializing the SmartDate property with the keyword 'new'.
Since SmartDate is a struct I don't think we could do that (CS1612 compiler error). I checked the documentation of Csla and we have something like the following for Text property

        /// This property can be used to set the date value by passing a
    /// text representation of the date. Any text date representation
    /// that can be parsed by the .NET runtime is valid.
    /// </para><para>
    /// When the date value is retrieved via this property, the text
    /// is formatted by using the format specified by the 
    /// <see cref="FormatString" /> property. The default is the
    /// short date format (d).
    /// </para>
    /// </remarks>

Any thoughts?

Kind Regards