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I would agree that Aman and Eressea, after being removed, are still within time.
If I recall correctly there's also a letter where JRRT notes this specifically, but anyway, as Legolas notes concerning Lothlorien, change and decay is not the same in all places. Tolkien toyed with actual time differences in Lorien (as seen from draft texts), but he abandoned this for halting or slowing the unwanted (from an Elvish perspective) effects of time rather -- which still had its confusing effect in any case, as we see from Sam's comments.
Lothlorien still could be said to be 'timeless' in ways, but as Legolas also notes, time does not tarry. In the text Aman (Morgoth's Ring) it's noted that: 'Time in Aman was actual time, not merely a mode of perception. As, say, 100 years went by in Middle-earth as part of Arda, so 100 years passed in Aman, which was also part of Arda.'
Of course the next section titled Aman and Mortal Men begins: 'If it is thus in Aman, or was ere the Change of the World, and therein the Eldar...' but still the reader is given no real reason to think that this bit about time wasn't still true after the Change of the World.
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