We calculated the matter effect, including both the Earth and supernova, on
the detection of neutrinos from type II supernovae at the proposed Daya Bay
reactor neutrino experiment. It is found that apart from the dependence on the
flip probability P_H inside the supernova and the mass hierarchy of neutrinos,
the amount of the Earth matter effect depends on the direction of the incoming
supernova neutrinos, and reaches the biggest value when the incident angle of
neutrinos is around 93^\circ. In the reaction channel \bar{\nu}_e + p --> e^+ +
n the Earth matter effect can be as big as about 12%. For other detection
processes the amount of the Earth matter effect is a few per cent.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure