Why is February so short? Why can’t we steal one day from a couple of the 31-day months and make February 30 days long, 31 on leap years?
Actually you’ve just answered your own question. February is so short because other months ARE so long. To be specific: In Roman times, the month of July was created by and named for Julius Caesar. He wanted his month to be long, so he took a day from another month (February). After Julius, Augustus came on the scene and he also wanted his own month (August). Not wanting to be outdone by Julius, he also took a day from February. That’s why we have two 31-day months in a row and also why February is the shortest month. As for why we don’t change it back, chalk it up to millenia of tradition.
No, no, no! The question should really be:
Why can’t we put the leap day in June?Why not have an extra day in summer?
Just leapin’ to conclusions! 
“They’re coming to take me away ha-ha, ho-ho, hee-hee, to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time… :)” - Napoleon IV
Doing this would also provide years of new work for all the programmers who worked on the Y2K problem-- they’d have to modify every computer program that computes dates! 
Seriously, though, I think the calendar is so ingrained that we’re stuck with it. It’s enough of a hassle to compute dates and ages from before we switched calendars in the 1700s-- imagine if we had to do that for every date up to, say, this year! For all its weirdness, at least it’s a system everybody knows (or can learn), and it’s pretty consistent given the fact that some aspects of it are beyond our control, such as having about 365.24 days in a year.
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The Master on How come February has only 28 days?
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is on April 15th. Do you have what it takes?
Well, I bow before the Master’s wisdom. I guess I was repeating a REALLY OLD urban legend.
Oops… Sorry, I forgot to do the search before posting. So d**n hard to come up with a good new question…