Will two years of daycare count for anything when we apply for nursery?

Our son started daycare at a few months old because we both work and I'm on the road most weeks. By the time nursery admissions come round, he'll have spent close to two years in a daycare room. A relative is convinced schools prefer children who've been at home with family, because they're 'calmer'. A colleague says the opposite, that daycare kids settle faster and schools like that. I suspect neither of them has asked a school. Does it come up in nursery interactions or forms at all? We're on the Ameerpet side, if that matters.