S80 CREW INBOUND TO SLC RECEIVED ATIS INFO ABOUT THE SAME TIME THE ARPT WAS BEING CHANGED TO LAND ON THE N RWYS.

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AT XB10Z I PULLED UP A COPY OF THE LATEST SLC ATIS WHILE DSNDING ON THE LHO2 ARR INTO SLC. INFO WAS CURRENT AT XA56Z; LNDG S. I CHKED WITH THE FIRST APCH CTLR AND RPTED CURRENT ATIS. WE DEPARTED CARTR HEADING 170 DEGS TO INTERCEPT IMOY LOC; BUT WERE UNABLE TO RECEIVE THE LOC. APCH WAS WORKING SEVERAL ACFT AT THE TIME; INCLUDING A SMALL ACFT THAT HAD SET OFF AN ALT ALERT AS BEING HEADED W BELOW THE MINIMUM VECTORING ALT. THE WX WAS CLR AND VISIBILITY UNLIMITED AND WE HAD HAD THE RWY IN SIGHT FOR AT LEAST 20-30 MI AND COULD SEE WE WERE NOT GOING TO INTERCEPT THE LOC. WE WERE W OF THE LOC AND GOING FURTHER W. I QUERIED APCH WHAT HEADING HE WOULD LIKE US ON. HE REPLIED WE WOULD GET ONE APCHING DYANN. WE DIDN'T BELIEVE DYANN WAS GOING TO LEAD US TO A S RWY. I PULLED UP ANOTHER ATIS; THIS TIME DIFFERENT ATIS CODE; LNDG N; ALSO TIME STAMPED XA56Z. WE WERE THEN SWITCHED TO ANOTHER CTLR WHO CONFIRMED THEY HAD TURNED THE ARPT AROUND AT ABOUT THE TIME OF ORIGINAL ATIS. CAUSED US SOME CONFUSION IN THE COCKPIT. I DIDN'T FEEL THE NEED TO CHK ATIS AGAIN AFTER THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE WX WAS SEVERE CLR AND THE CTLR DIDN'T ADVISE THAT ORIGINAL ATIS WAS NO LONGER CURRENT.